Optical Fibre-Based Sensors-An Assessment of Current Innovations. [PDF]
Biosensors (Basel), 2023 Optical fibre sensors are an essential subset of optical fibre technology, designed specifically for sensing and measuring several physical parameters. These sensors offer unique advantages over traditional sensors, making them gradually more valuable in
Khonina SN, Kazanskiy NL, Butt MA.
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Integrated sensing and communication in an optical fibre. [PDF]
Light Sci Appl, 2023 The integration of high-speed optical communication and distributed sensing could bring intelligent functionalities to ubiquitous optical fibre networks, such as urban structure imaging, ocean seismic detection, and safety monitoring of underground ...
He H +9 more
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Optical fibre taper-enabled waveguide photoactuators. [PDF]
Nat Commun, 2022 Photoactuators have attracted significant interest for soft robot and gripper applications, yet most of them rely on free-space illumination, which requires a line-of-site low-loss optical path. While waveguide photoactuators can overcome this limitation,
Xiao J +13 more
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Hollow-core optical fibre sensors for operando Raman spectroscopy investigation of Li-ion battery liquid electrolytes. [PDF]
Nat Commun, 2022 Improved analytical tools are urgently required to identify degradation and failure mechanisms in Li-ion batteries. However, understanding and ultimately avoiding these detrimental mechanisms requires continuous tracking of complex electrochemical ...
Miele E +8 more
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Comparing ultrastable lasers at 7 × 10-17 fractional frequency instability through a 2220 km optical fibre network. [PDF]
Nat Commun, 2022 Ultrastable lasers are essential tools in optical frequency metrology enabling unprecedented measurement precision that impacts on fields such as atomic timekeeping, tests of fundamental physics, and geodesy. To characterise an ultrastable laser it needs
Schioppo M +31 more
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Twin-field quantum key distribution over a 511 km optical fibre linking two distant metropolitan areas [PDF]
Nature Photonics, 2021 The basic principle of quantum mechanics1 guarantees the unconditional security of quantum key distribution (QKD)2–6 at the cost of forbidding the amplification of a quantum state.
Jiu-Peng Chen +18 more
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Agarose-based structured optical fibre. [PDF]
Sci Rep, 2020 Biocompatible and resorbable optical fibres emerge as promising technologies for in vivo applications like imaging, light delivery for phototherapy and optogenetics, and localised drug-delivery, as well as for biochemical sensing, wherein the probe can ...
Fujiwara E +4 more
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Structural Health Monitoring, 2021 The implementation of structural health monitoring systems in civil engineering structures already in the construction phase could contribute to safer and more resilient infrastructure.
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Genetic-optimised aperiodic code for distributed optical fibre sensors. [PDF]
Nat Commun, 2020 Distributed optical fibre sensors deliver a map of a physical quantity along an optical fibre, providing a unique solution for health monitoring of targeted structures.
Sun X +8 more
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Observation of anti-parity-time-symmetry, phase transitions and exceptional points in an optical fibre [PDF]
Nature Communications, 2020 The exotic physics emerging in non-Hermitian systems with balanced distributions of gain and loss has recently drawn a great deal of attention. These systems exhibit phase transitions and exceptional point singularities in their spectra, at which eigen ...
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