Investigation of axial strain effects on microwave signals from a pm-EDF short cavity dbr laser for sensing applications

IEEE Photonics Journal

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1530-1535

  Jiang, M ^a,b   Dinh, X Q ^b,c   Shum, P P ^a,b   Molin, S ^d   Wu, Z F ^a,e   Nouchi, P ^d  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b RESEARCH TECHNO PLAZA   (Singapore)

^c THALES   (France)

^d THALES RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY   (France)

^e NANKAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

distributed Bragg reflector (DBR); fiber gratings; Fiber lasers; microwave generation; polarization maintaining erbium doped fiber (PM EDF); sensors

Indexed keywords

AXIAL STRAIN; AXIAL-STRAIN EFFECT; CAVITY LENGTH; CROSS SENSITIVITY; DBR; DUAL-POLARIZATIONS; ERBIUM DOPED FIBERS; FIBER BIREFRINGENCE; FIBER GRATINGS; HIGH BIREFRINGENT FIBER; HIGH RESOLUTION SENSORS; LINEAR STRAINS; MICROWAVE SIGNALS; ORTHOGONAL POLARIZATIONS; POLARIZATION MAINTAINING; POTENTIAL APPLICATIONS; SENSING APPLICATIONS; SHORT CAVITY; SINGLE LONGITUDINAL MODE; SINGLE MODE; ULTRASENSITIVE SENSORS;

BIREFRINGENCE; DISTRIBUTED BRAGG REFLECTORS; FIBER LASERS; FIBERS; MICROWAVE GENERATION; POLARIZATION; SENSORS;

DBR LASERS;

EID: 84865384771     PISSN: 19430655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JPHOT.2012.2211002     Document Type: Article

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