High-Sensitivity Temperature Sensor Based on Polarization Maintaining Fiber Sagnac Loop

Laipeng SHAO; Junhui HU; Hanglin LU; Jing DU; Tianyin WU; Yiping WANG

doi:10.1007/s13320-018-0517-6

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