Microbubble based fiber-optic Fabry-Perot interferometer formed by fusion splicing single-mode fibers for strain measurement

Applied Optics

Volumn 51, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1033-1036

  Duan, De Wen ^a   Rao, Yun Jiang ^a,b   Hou, Yu Song ^a   Zhu, Tao ^a  

^a CHONGQING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRONIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBERS; INTERFEROMETERS; SINGLE MODE FIBERS;

AIR BUBBLES; BUBBLE DIAMETER; FUSION SPLICING; MICRO-BUBBLE; STRAIN SENSITIVITY; STRAIN SENSORS; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; THERMAL SENSITIVITY;

FABRY-PEROT INTERFEROMETERS;

EID: 84858134797     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.51.001033     Document Type: Article

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