A new study from a University of Michigan researcher and colleagues at three institutions demonstrates the potential for using existing networks of buried optical fibers as an inexpensive observatory for monitoring and studying ...
Earth Sciences
Mar 31, 2020
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Optical fibers enable our era of the internet, as they carry vast amounts of data all around the world. Fibers are also an excellent sensor platform. They can reach over hundreds of kilometers, simply embedded within structures, ...
Optics & Photonics
Mar 9, 2020
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Hydrogen is considered as one of the promising alternative energy sources. Nevertheless, its application as an energy carrier is complicated due to its highly explosive nature when mixed with oxygen. These dangerous situations ...
Analytical Chemistry
Jan 14, 2020
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Optical fibers enable the internet, and they are practically everywhere: underground and beneath the oceans. Fibers can do more than just carry information: they are also fantastic sensors. Hair-thin optical fibers support ...
Optics & Photonics
Jan 29, 2019
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What if a sensor sensing a thing could be part of the thing itself? Rice University engineers believe they have a two-dimensional solution to do just that.
Nanomaterials
Dec 6, 2018
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For the first time, researchers have fabricated sensing elements known as fiber Bragg gratings inside optical fibers designed to dissolve completely inside the body. The bioresorbable fiber Bragg gratings could be used for ...
Optics & Photonics
Feb 5, 2018
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The exciting applications of wearable sensors have sparked a tremendous amount of research and business investment in recent years. Sensors attached to the body or integrated into clothing could allow athletes and physical ...
Optics & Photonics
Oct 12, 2017
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Scientists from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT) and international collaborators have developed a new type of optical fiber that has an extremely large core diameter and preserves the coherent properties ...
Optics & Photonics
Jul 18, 2017
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Using a tiny device known as an optical antenna, researchers have created an X-ray sensor that is integrated onto the end of an optical fiber just a few tens of microns in diameter. By detecting X-rays at an extremely small ...
Optics & Photonics
Mar 28, 2017
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A research group including members from Tokyo Institute of Technology and Japan Society for the Promotion of Science has developed a real-time fiber-optic distributed sensing system for strain and temperature. The system ...
Optics & Photonics
Dec 15, 2016
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