Fiber-optic Fabry-Pérot sensor based on periodic focusing effect of graded-index multimode fibers

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 22, Issue 23, 2010, Pages 1708-1710

  Gong, Yuan ^a   Guo, Yu ^a   Rao, Yun Jiang ^a   Zhao, Tian ^a   Wu, Yu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRONIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

Fabry P rot; fiber optic sensors; graded index multimode fiber (GI MMF); periodic focusing effect

Indexed keywords

FOCUSING EFFECT; FRINGE CONTRASTS; GRADED-INDEX MULTIMODE FIBER; GRADED-INDEX MULTIMODE FIBERS; PERIODIC FOCUSING EFFECT; REFLECTIVE SPECTRUM; SIMULTANEOUS MEASUREMENT; WAVELENGTH SHIFT;

DENSE WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; FIBER OPTIC SENSORS; FIBER OPTICS; FIBERS; FOCUSING; LIGHT REFRACTION; REFRACTIVE INDEX; REFRACTOMETERS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SENSORS;

MULTIMODE FIBERS;

EID: 78449299012     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2010.2082518     Document Type: Article

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