Air gap fiber Fabry-Pérot interferometer for highly sensitive micro-airflow sensing

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 23, Issue 13, 2011, Pages 905-907

  Lee, Cheng Ling ^a   Hong, Wan Yu ^a   Hsieh, Hsin Jung ^a   Weng, Zi Yu ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNITED UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

air gaps; Airflow; Fabry P rot interferometer; fiber sensors; fiber optics component

Indexed keywords

AIR FLOW VELOCITY; AIR-GAPS; AIRFLOW; ALIGNED FIBERS; CENTER WAVELENGTH; FIBER ENDFACES; FIBER SENSORS; FIBER-OPTICS COMPONENT; HIGH SENSITIVITY; HIGHLY SENSITIVE; INTERFERENCE FRINGE; PRESSURE DIFFERENCES; SURROUNDING ENVIRONMENT;

CONTACTS (FLUID MECHANICS); FLUID MECHANICS; INTERFEROMETERS; SENSORS; TEMPERATURE CONTROL;

FIBERS;

EID: 79958727272     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2011.2142413     Document Type: Article

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