Ultrasensitive Methane Volume Fraction Sensor Based on Long Period Fiber Grating and Back-Propagation Neural Network

Chao Du; Bin Zhang; Shuang Zhao; Qiuyu Wang; Li Zhang; Liqin Cui; Xiao Deng

doi:10.3788/LOP222732

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