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Fiber optic sensors in environmental monitoring

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Fiber optics is best known today for its widespread and ever growing applications in communication networks around the world, and since the early 1980s, the application of fiber optics in measurement and sensor systems has begun to emerge.

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Stewart, G. (1998). Fiber optic sensors in environmental monitoring. In: Grattan, K.T.V., Meggitt, B.T. (eds) Optical Fiber Sensor Technology. Optoelectronics, Imaging and Sensing, vol 4. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-2484-5_5

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