Highly sensitive fiber loop ringdown strain sensor using photonic crystal fiber interferometer

Applied Optics

Volumn 50, Issue 19, 2011, Pages 3087-3092

  Zhou, Wenjun ^a,b   Wong, Wei Chang ^b   Chan, Chi Chiu ^b   Shao, Li Yang ^a   Dong, Xinyong ^a  

^a CHINA JILIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Nanyang Technological University   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL WHISKERS; FIBERS; INTERFEROMETERS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL FIBER FABRICATION; SINGLE MODE FIBERS; STRAIN;

CAVITY RING-DOWN; COLLAPSED AIR HOLES; DECAY CONSTANTS; FIBER LOOP RINGDOWN; MACHZEHNDER INTERFEROMETERS (MZI); MAXIMUM TEMPERATURE; SENSING ELEMENTS; THERMAL DEPENDENCES;

PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBERS;

GLASS FIBER;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTICS; INSTRUMENTATION; INTERFEROMETRY; PHOTON; REFRACTOMETRY; TEMPERATURE;

ALGORITHMS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTIC TECHNOLOGY; INTERFEROMETRY; OPTICAL FIBERS; PHOTONS; REFRACTOMETRY; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 79960022867     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.50.003087     Document Type: Article

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