High sensitivity polymer optical fiber-bragg-grating-based accelerometer

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 24, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 763-765

  Stefani, Alessio ^a   Andresen, Søren ^b   Yuan, Wu ^c   Herholdt Rasmussen, Nicolai ^d   Bang, Ole ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b Bruel & Kjaer Danmark   (Denmark)

^c SINGAPORE INSTITUTE OF MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGY   (Singapore)

^d Ibsen Photonics A/S   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Accelerometer; fiber Bragg grating; optical fiber sensor; polymer optical fiber

Indexed keywords

1550 NM; ELASTIC LIMIT; FIGURE OF MERITS; FLAT FREQUENCY RESPONSE; HIGH SENSITIVITY; OPTICAL FIBER SENSOR; PER UNIT; POLYMER FIBER; RESONANCE FREQUENCIES; RESONANCE WAVELENGTHS;

ACCELEROMETERS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; PLASTIC OPTICAL FIBERS; POLYMERS; SILICA;

FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS;

EID: 84859952556     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2012.2188024     Document Type: Article

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