Probing the ultimate limit of fiber-optic strain sensing

Science

Volumn 330, Issue 6007, 2010, Pages 1081-1084

  Gagliardi, G ^a   Salza, M ^a   Avino, S ^a   Ferraro, P ^a   De Natale, P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION MECHANISM; DISPLACEMENT; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; GEOPHYSICS; MEASUREMENT METHOD; QUARTZ; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; THERMODYNAMICS;

ARTICLE; FIBER OPTICS; OPTICAL BIOSENSOR; PIEZOELECTRICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRAIN GAUGE TRANSDUCER; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 78449267042     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1195818     Document Type: Article

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30. We thank M. Prevedelli, A. Arie, M. De Rosa, and J. H. Chow for helpful discussions. Technical assistance on the electronic setup was provided by R. Abbate, who passed away in September 2008. We thank Avanex Corp. (San Donato, Milan, Italy) for kindly providing part of the equipment. This experiment was partly funded by Ente Cassa di Risparmio di Firenze.