Optical Fiber Distributed Three-dimensional Shape Sensing Technology Based on Optical Frequency-Domain Reflectometer

Guolu Yin; Zhou Xu; Rui Jiang; Ming Deng; Tao Zhu

doi:10.3788/AOS202242.0106002

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