Ultrafast and Precise Interrogation of Fiber Bragg Grating Sensor Based on Wavelength-to-Time Mapping Incorporating Higher Order Dispersion

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 254-261

  Xia, Haiyun ^a,b   Wang, Chao ^a   Blais, Sébastien ^a   Yao, Jianping ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b BEIHANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Femtosecond fiber laser; fiber Bragg grating (FBG); higher order dispersion; real time dispersive Fourier transformation

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008546481     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: 15582213     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2009.2037722     Document Type: Article

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