High-Tg TOPAS microstructured polymer optical fiber for fiber Bragg grating strain sensing at 110 degrees

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 4758-4765

  Markos, Christos ^a,b,e   Stefani, Alessio ^b,c   Nielsen, Kristian ^b   Rasmussen, Henrik K ^b   Yuan, Wu ^b,d   Bang, Ole ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR THE SCIENCE OF LIGHT   (Germany)

^d SINGAPORE INSTITUTE OF MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGY   (Singapore)

^e THEORETICAL AND PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY INSTITUTE   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OLEFINS;

BRAGG WAVELENGTH; CYCLIC OLEFIN COPOLYMERS; FABRICATION AND CHARACTERIZATIONS; FIBER LOSS; HIGH STRAINS; HIGH TEMPERATURE; HIGH-T; MICROSTRUCTURED POLYMER OPTICAL FIBERS; MICROSTRUCTURED POLYMER OPTICAL FIBERS (MPOF); PROPAGATION LOSS; SINGLE MODE; STABLE OPERATION; STRAIN SENSING;

FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS;

ALKENE;

CHEMISTRY; DEVICE FAILURE ANALYSIS; DEVICES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTICS; REFRACTOMETRY; TEMPERATURE; TRANSDUCER; YOUNG MODULUS; ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT FAILURE;

ALKENES; ELASTIC MODULUS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FIBER OPTIC TECHNOLOGY; REFRACTOMETRY; TEMPERATURE; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 84874530854     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.004758     Document Type: Article

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