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Mechanically created long-period fiber gratings as sensitive bend sensors

A 2005 SPIE journal article reports producing long-period fiber gratings by mechanical means and evaluates them as sensitive bend sensors. The source metadata identifies the publisher as SPIE-Intl Soc Optical Eng and the publication date as 2005-03-01.

Illustrative image: Laying fiber optic cable along the lonely stretch of highway between Yakima and the Vernita Bridge — Robert Ashworth from Bellingham, WA., USA/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0

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Describes a method for creating fiber gratings intended for use as sensitive bend sensors.

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Mechanically created long-period fiber gratings as sensitive bend sensors

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