Fundamentals of Optical Fiber Sensors

INDEX

Absorption spectra of fiber in UV band

Acoustic frequency phonon

Acoustic optical modulator (AOM)

Acoustic optic (AO) effect

Acoustic optic tunable filter (AOTF)

Acoustic wave

Acoustic wavelength, in fiber

Acousto-optic modulator (AOM)

Active device

Active sensor

Active homodyne

Adiabaticity criteria, of axial coupling

Airy equation

Airy function

Airy peaks

Algorithm of vernier

All-fiber Michelson interferometer

All-pass filter, defined

Ampere’s law

Ampere theorem

Amplified spontaneous emitting fiber sources (ASE)

Angled physical contact (APC)

configuration of

Anisotropic media, optics of

Annihilation of phonons

Anti-Stokes scattering

of Raman scattering in fiber

of Brillouin scattering in fiber

AOM frequency shift

APC (angled physical contact) connector

Apodization, of fiber grating

Raise cosine apodization

Sinc apodization

ArF excimer laser

Arrayed waveguide grating (AWG)

Atomic force microscope (AFM)

Attenuated total reflection (ATR)

Attitude heading reference systems (AHRS)

Autocorrelation

Auditory tube

Avalanche photodiodes (APD)

Axial strain, sensitivity to. See also Fiber sensitivities

Azimuthally polarized wave

Back focal length, defined

Balanced detector, balanced PD

Beam combiner (BC)

Beam splitter (BS)

Beating of longitudinal modes

Beat length

Beer–Lambert law

Bending-induced birefringence

Bending loss

Bending loss insensitive fiber (ITU-T G.657)

Bernoulli equation

Bessel equation

integral expression and orthogonality relation

large argument, asymptotic expressions ...