On-Chip Sub-Picometer Continuous Wavelength Fiber-Bragg-Grating Interrogator

Yuan ZHUANG; Jun ZOU; Jiqiang ZHANG; Lu ZHANG; Jiahe ZHANG; Leixin MENG; and Qing YANG

doi:10.1007/s13320-023-0694-9

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