Temperature-insensitive polarimetric vibration sensor based on HiBi microstructured optical fiber

Applied Optics

Volumn 51, Issue 25, 2012, Pages 6130-6138

  Chah, Karima ^a   Linze, Nicolas ^a   Caucheteur, Christophe ^a   Mégret, Patrice ^a   Tihon, Pierre ^a   Verlinden, Olivier ^a   Sulejmani, Sanne ^b   Geernaert, Thomas ^b   Berghmans, Francis ^b   Thienpont, Hugo ^b   Wuilpart, Marc ^a  

^a FACULTÉ POLYTECHNIQUE DE MONS   (Belgium)

^b VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIREFRINGENCE; MICROSTRUCTURE; OPTICAL FIBERS; PHASE SHIFT; POLARIMETERS; POLARIZATION-MAINTAINING FIBER; SINGLE MODE FIBERS; VIBRATION MEASUREMENT;

MICRO-STRUCTURED OPTICAL FIBERS; MICROSTRUCTURED FIBERS; STABLE MEASUREMENTS; STANDARD SINGLE MODE FIBERS; TEMPERATURE INDEPENDENTS; TEMPERATURE VARIATION; TEMPERATURE-INSENSITIVE; VIBRATION SENSORS;

FIBERS;

EID: 84866332716     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.51.006130     Document Type: Article

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