Cost-Effective Fiber Multiplexing System Based on Low Coherence Interferometers and Application to Temperature Measurement

Meng JIANG; Zhongze ZHAO; Kun LI; Zeming WANG; Yage ZHAN; Hongying ZHOU; Fu YANG

doi:10.1007/s13320-016-0344-6

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