Interferometric fiber optic sensors

Sensors

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 2467-2486

  Lee, Byeong Ha ^a   Kim, Young Ho ^a   Park, Kwan Seob ^a   Eom, Joo Beom ^b   Kim, Myoung Jin ^b   Rho, Byung Sup ^b   Choi, Hae Young ^c  

^a Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST)   (South Korea)

^b Korea Photonics Technology Institute (KOPTI)   (South Korea)

^c New Drug Development Center   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Fabry perot interferometers; Fiber interferometers; Fiber optic sensors; Mach zehnder interferometers; Michelson interferometers; Sagnac interferometers

Indexed keywords

EID: 84858987211     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s120302467     Document Type: Review

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