Strain and Temperature Discrimination Based on a Mach-Zehnder Interferometer With Cascaded Single Mode Fibers

Shiying XIAO; Beilei WU; Chunran SUN; Zixiao WANG; Youchao JIANG

doi:10.1007/s13320-022-0664-7

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