Fiber-optic sensors work well in tight spots and in applications with a high degree of electrical noise, but care must be taken when specifying these critical components. Sensing part presence in ...

Check out this Government Technology article Pasadena, Calif., Uses Fiber Network to Monitor Earthquakes. If the technology works, it is a great example of how you can merge existing infrastructure to ...

The recent development in the utilization of flexible optical fiber sensors and the prospective application scenarios were then summarized, which encompass human activity monitoring and healthcare, ...

Once upon a time, provisioning optical circuits was a costly and complex proposition, requiring physicist-level expertise and manual configuration at each site through which a circuit passed. The ...

Three major components in any fiber-optic system are the transmitter, receiver, and fiber cable. Transmitters are often referred to as launchers and are typically either injection laser diodes (ILDs) ...