Intermodal interferometer for strain and temperature sensing fabricated in birefringent boron doped microstructured fiber

Applied Optics

Volumn 50, Issue 21, 2011, Pages 3742-3749

  Statkiewicz Barabach, G ^a   Carvalho, J P ^b   Frazao O ^b   Olszewski, J ^a   Mergo, P ^c   Santos, J L ^b   Urbanczyk, W ^a  

^a WROCLAW UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^c MARIA CURIE SK ODOWSKA UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIREFRINGENCE; CARBON DIOXIDE; INTERFEROMETERS; MICROSTRUCTURE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE SENSORS; VISIBILITY;

DIFFERENTIAL SIGNAL; FIBER INTERFEROMETRIC SENSORS; INTERFERENCE FRINGE; INTERMODAL INTERFERENCES; MICROSTRUCTURED FIBERS; SENSITIVITY COEFFICIENT; SIMULTANEOUS MEASUREMENT; STRAIN AND TEMPERATURE SENSING;

FIBERS;

EID: 79960646605     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.50.003742     Document Type: Article

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