Advances in optical fiber bragg grating sensor technologies?

Photonic Sensors

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 1-13

  Zhang, A Ping ^a   Gao, Shaorui ^a   Yan, Guofeng ^a   Bai, Yinbing ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Fiber Bragg gratings; Optical fiber flowmeter; Optical fiber gas sensor; Refractive index sensor

Indexed keywords

FBG SENSOR; FIBER GRATING SENSOR; FIBER MATERIALS; OPTICAL FIBER BRAGG GRATING SENSORS; OPTICAL FIBER GAS SENSOR; PERMANENT GRATINGS; POST-PROCESSING TECHNOLOGIES; REFRACTIVE-INDEX SENSORS;

ELECTRIC SENSING DEVICES; SENSORS;

FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS;

EID: 84858848408     PISSN: 16749251     EISSN: 21907439     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13320-011-0048-x     Document Type: Review

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