Miniaturized and highly sensitive fiber-optic Fabry–Perot sensor for mHz infrasound detection

Peijie Wang; Yufeng Pan; Jiangshan Zhang; Jie Zhai; Deming Liu; Ping Lu

doi:10.1364/PRJ.519946

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