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 ...

It’s always interesting to see how scientists and engineers have exploited—in the positive sense of the word—somewhat obscure, fundamental physics principles to create innovative sensors. For example, ...

The rise in the development of industrial infrastructure and smart infrastructure in the UAE is increasing the demand for high-precision sensing technologies. It is projected that the distributed ...

(a) Electrochemical fiber-optic bubble monitoring system. (b) The structural illustration of fiber optic sensor. (c) Illustration of evanescent field generation and bubble monitoring mechanism based ...

A fibre-optic acoustic sensor that can detect a person up to 10 m away could soon be deployed in many demanding security applications. Jacqueline Hewett talks to David Hill at QinetiQ to find out just ...

The inner circle classifies fiber sensors into ‘Macroscopical’ and ‘Microscopical’ according to the fiber dimension. The outer pie chart shows the classification according to the working principles.

A new design of external cavity laser allows sensors to penetrate applications where reliability and lower cost are essential. Tim Hayes speaks to Radu Barsan to learn more. The advantages of ...

Project Stingray, which aims to commercialize fibre-optic seismic sensors for mapping oil and gas reservoirs under the sea-bed, begins testing this month. James Tyrrell reports. Extracting ...

Researchers have developed new sensors for measuring acceleration and vibration on trains. The technology could be integrated with artificial intelligence to prevent railway accidents and catastrophic ...

Italian airframe manufacturer Alenia Aerospace has conducted two flight tests using aC-27J Spartan airlifter as part of its structural health monitoring research efforts within the EU-funded SMIST ...