Recent progress of in-fiber integrated interferometers

Abstract

A brief review of recent progress made in a range of in-fiber integrated interferometers for measuring is presented, with particular attention paid to the multi-core based in-fiber integrated techniques, which have the potential to be exploited in a variety of wide applications.

Keywords

Optical fiber / multi-core fiber / fiber optic sensor / fiber optic interferometer

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