Optical fiber relative humidity sensor based on a FBG with a di-ureasil coating

Sensors (Switzerland)

Volumn 12, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 8847-8860

  Correia, Sandra F H ^a,b   Antunes, Paulo ^a,c   Pecoraro, Edison ^c,d   Lima, Patrícia P ^a,b   Varum, Humberto ^a   Carlos, Luis D ^a,b   Ferreira, Rute A S ^a,b   André, Paulo S ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AVEIRO   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AVEIRO   (Portugal)

^c INSTITUTO DE TELECOMUNICAÇÕES   (Portugal)

^d SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Fiber Bragg gratings; Optical fiber sensors; Organo silica hybrid; Relative humidity; Structure health monitoring

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864337091     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s120708847     Document Type: Article

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