Strain and Temperature Discrimination Using Concatenated High-Birefringence Fiber Loop Mirrors

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 19, Issue 16, 2007, Pages 1260-1262

  Santos, J L ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MADEIRA   (Portugal)

^c Universidade do Porto ^*

^d UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Highly birefringent (Hi Bi) fiber; loop mirror; optical fiber sensors

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008006588     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: 19410174     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2007.902263     Document Type: Article

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