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A Random-displacement Measurement by Combining a Magnetic Scale and Two Fiber Bragg Gratings
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Simultaneous temperature and strain measurements performed by a step-changed arc-induced long-period fiber grating

Gaspar Rego1, Rosane Falate, Oleg Ivanov

  • 1Escola Superior de Tecnologia e Gestão, Avenida do Atlântico, 4900-348 Viana do Castelo, Portugal.

Applied Optics
|March 6, 2007
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