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A brief review of recent progress made in a range of in-fiber integrated interferometers for measuring is presented, with particular attention paid to the multi-core based in-fiber integrated techniques, which have the potential to be exploited in a variety of wide applications.
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Yuan, L. Recent progress of in-fiber integrated interferometers. Photonic Sens 1, 1–5 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13320-010-0005-0
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