Optical fibre microwire sensors

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7753, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Brambilla, G ^a   Belal, M ^a   Jung, Y ^a   Song, Z ^a   Xu, F ^a   Newson, T ^a   Richardson, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Optical fibre microwires; optical fibre sensors; optical fibre tapers

Indexed keywords

FAST RESPONSE; LIGHT CONFINEMENTS; LINEAR SENSOR; MICRO WIRE; OPTICAL FIBRE; OPTICAL FIBRE SENSORS; OPTICAL FIBRE TAPERS; RESONANT SENSORS; SENSING APPLICATIONS;

FIBER OPTIC SENSORS; FIBERS; NANOWIRES; OPTICAL FIBERS;

SENSORS;

EID: 79958004539     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.883119     Document Type: Conference Paper

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