Low-cost rapid miniature optical pressure sensors for blast wave measurements

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 10797-10804

  Wu, Nan ^a   Wang, Wenhui ^a   Tian, Ye ^a   Zou, Xiaotian ^a   Maffeo, Michael ^b   Niezrecki, Christopher ^a   Chen, Julie ^a   Wang, Xingwei ^a  

^a University of Massachusetts   (United States)

^b US Army Natick Soldier Research Development and Engineering Center ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBER OPTICS; PRESSURE SENSORS; SILICON NITRIDE; SINGLE MODE FIBERS;

BLAST WAVES; COMPACT STRUCTURES; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; FABRY-PEROT; FAST RESPONSE; HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION; OPTICAL DEMODULATION; OPTICAL PRESSURE SENSORS; RISETIMES; SILICON CHIP; THIN DIAPHRAGMS; V-GROOVE; V-SHAPE;

DIAPHRAGMS;

EID: 79957597151     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.010797     Document Type: Article

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