Distributed strain and temperature discrimination in unaltered polarization maintaining fiber

Optics InfoBase Conference Papers

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages

  Froggatt, Mark ^a   Gifford, Dawn ^a   Kreger, Steven ^a   Wolfe, Matthew ^a   Soller, Brian ^a  

^a LUNA INNOVATIONS INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBER OPTIC SENSORS; FIBERS; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; LIGHT POLARIZATION;

DISTRIBUTED MEASUREMENTS; DISTRIBUTED STRAIN; HIGH SENSITIVITY; OPTICAL FREQUENCY DOMAIN REFLECTOMETRY; STRAIN AND TEMPERATURE DISCRIMINATIONS;

POLARIZATION-MAINTAINING FIBER;

EID: 85088344859     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21622701     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1364/ofs.2006.thc5     Document Type: Conference Paper

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