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The transit time of a circulating light pulse in a 10–1000 m long multinode optical fibre is used to measure the absolute length of the fibre and also its length variations with a reproducibility of ± 0.2 mm. The arrangement represents a fibre-optical strain gauge for use on long arbitrarily shaped paths.
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Johnson et al. (1978) studied this question.
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