Optical fiber sensing based on reflection laser spectroscopy

Sensors

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 1823-1845

  Gagliardi, Gianluca ^a   Salza, Mario ^a   Ferraro, Pietro ^a   Chehura, Edmond ^b   Tatam, Ralph P ^b   Gangopadhyay, Tarun K ^c   Ballard, Nicholas ^d   Paz Soldan, Daniel ^d   Barnes, Jack A ^d   Loock, Hans Peter ^d   Lam, Timothy T Y ^e   Chow, Jong H ^e   de Natale, Paolo ^a  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI OTTICA   (Italy)

^b CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c CSIR CENTRAL GLASS AND CERAMIC RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

^d QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^e AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Fiber bragg gratings; Fiber resonator; Frequency locking; High birefringence fiber; Laser frequency modulation; Pound drever hall method

Indexed keywords

DETECTION PERFORMANCE; FIBER RESONATOR; FREQUENCY LOCKING; FREQUENCY-LOCKING TECHNIQUE; HIGH-BIREFRINGENCE FIBERS; OPTICAL FIBER SENSING; POUND-DREVER-HALL; SPECTROSCOPIC TECHNIQUE;

FIBERS; LASER SPECTROSCOPY; LOCKS (FASTENERS); NOISE ABATEMENT; RESONATORS;

FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS;

GLASS FIBER;

BIREFRINGENCE; FIBER OPTICS; LASER; REVIEW; SPECTROSCOPY;

BIREFRINGENCE; FIBER OPTIC TECHNOLOGY; LASERS; OPTICAL FIBERS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

EID: 77955497809     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s100301823     Document Type: Review

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