Pressure sensor based on the fiber-optic extrinsic fabry-perot interferometer

Photonic Sensors

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 72-83

  Yu, Qingxu ^a   Zhou, Xinlei ^a  

^a DALIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Downhole monitoring; Fabry Perot interferometer; Fiber acoustic sensor; Pressure measurement; Signal demodulation

Indexed keywords

EID: 79954438087     PISSN: 16749251     EISSN: 21907439     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13320-010-0017-9     Document Type: Review

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