Journal of Sensors
Volume 2009 (2009), Article ID 871580, 17 pages
doi:10.1155/2009/871580
Review Article

Properties of Specialist Fibres and Bragg Gratings for Optical Fiber Sensors

John Canning

Interdisciplinary Photonics Laboratories, School of Chemistry, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia

Received 4 March 2009; Accepted 9 June 2009

Academic Editor: Christos Riziotis

Copyright © 2009 John Canning. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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