Sensitivity-Enhanced Extrinsic Fabry–Perot Interferometric Fiber-Optic Microcavity Strain Sensor
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Structure and Fabrication
3. Measurement Principle and Sensitivity Enhancement
4. Experiments and Data Analyses
5. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Conflicts of Interest
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Ma, Z.; Cheng, S.; Kou, W.; Chen, H.; Wang, W.; Zhang, X.; Guo, T. Sensitivity-Enhanced Extrinsic Fabry–Perot Interferometric Fiber-Optic Microcavity Strain Sensor. Sensors 2019, 19, 4097. https://doi.org/10.3390/s19194097
Ma Z, Cheng S, Kou W, Chen H, Wang W, Zhang X, Guo T. Sensitivity-Enhanced Extrinsic Fabry–Perot Interferometric Fiber-Optic Microcavity Strain Sensor. Sensors. 2019; 19(19):4097. https://doi.org/10.3390/s19194097
Chicago/Turabian StyleMa, Zhibo, Shaolei Cheng, Wanying Kou, Haibin Chen, Wei Wang, Xiongxing Zhang, and Tongxin Guo. 2019. "Sensitivity-Enhanced Extrinsic Fabry–Perot Interferometric Fiber-Optic Microcavity Strain Sensor" Sensors 19, no. 19: 4097. https://doi.org/10.3390/s19194097