Simultaneous measurement of three parameters using an all-fiber Mach-Zehnder interferometer based on suspended twin-core fibers

Optical Engineering

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Silva, Susana F Oliveira ^a   Santos, José L ^a,b   Kobelke, Jens ^c   Schuster, Kay ^c   Frazão, Orlando ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^c LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF PHOTONIC TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

curvature; Mach Zehnder interferometer; strains; temperatures; twin core fibers

Indexed keywords

ALL FIBER; CURVATURE; FIBER CORES; INTERFEROMETRIC CONFIGURATION; MACH-ZEHNDER; MATRIX METHODS; SIMULTANEOUS MEASUREMENT; THREE PARAMETERS;

MACH-ZEHNDER INTERFEROMETERS; STRAIN; TEMPERATURE;

FIBERS;

EID: 81755161229     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: 15602303     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.3553482     Document Type: Article

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