Humidity insensitive TOPAS polymer fiber Bragg grating sensor

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 20, 2011, Pages 19731-19739

  Yuan, Wu ^a   Khan, Lutful ^b   Webb, David J ^b   Kalli, Kyriacos ^c   Rasmussen, Henrik K ^a   Stefani, Alessio ^a   Bang, Ole ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b ASTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c CYPRUS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Cyprus)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTERS; FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS; FIBER OPTIC SENSORS; FIBERS; OPTICAL FIBER FABRICATION;

1550 NM; HUMIDITY SENSITIVITY; LOW LOSS; MICROSTRUCTURED POLYMER OPTICAL FIBERS; POLYMER FIBER; POLYMER OPTICAL FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS; POLYMER OPTICAL FIBERS; RESONANCE WAVELENGTHS; SENSING APPLICATIONS; SINGLE MODE; SPECTRAL REGION; WAVELENGTH REGIMES;

POLYMERS;

GLASS FIBER; POLYMER;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTICS; HUMIDITY; INSTRUMENTATION; REFRACTOMETRY; TRANSDUCER;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTIC TECHNOLOGY; HUMIDITY; OPTICAL FIBERS; POLYMERS; REFRACTOMETRY; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 80053265585     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.019731     Document Type: Article

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