Researchers have developed a compact, high-precision gas mapping system by integrating on-chip dual microcombs with a nanomaterial-functionalized fiber sensor array. This hybrid architecture achieves ...

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, ...

Over the past 60 years, fiber optic sensing (FOS) has been used to enhance and test the integrity, efficiency, safety, and durability of structures, vehicles, medical devices, and more across a ...

Researchers have developed a tiny fiber optic force sensor that can measure extremely slight forces exerted by small objects. The new light-based sensor overcomes the limitations of force sensors ...

Researchers have developed a light-based technique for measuring very weak magnetic fields, such as those produced when neurons fire in the brain. Researchers have developed a light-based technique ...

Accurate gas detection is a cornerstone of energy security, environmental monitoring, and medical diagnosis. However, developing a miniaturized device ...

The prospect of exploiting spider silk's combination of optical and mechanical properties has been an attractive proposition to designers for some time. Back in 2008 a project at Tufts University ...

The Optical sensors market is poised for explosive expansion, driven by surging automotive LiDAR shipments and widespread industrial automation. With manufacturing capacities scaling to millions of ...

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 ...

OZ Optics Limited, a world leading supplier of fiber optic products for telecommunication, industrial and medical applications, now offers fiber collimator and focuser arrays. The arrays are ...