How can operators detect pipeline threats before they become costly failures? This article explores how distributed ...

An enhanced distributed optical fiber sensor based on broadband ultra-weak fiber Bragg grating array (UWFBG) for dynamic strain measurement with large temperature tolerance range was proposed and ...

Japan launches worlds first underwater earthquake early warning system with 6,000 km of fiber optics Japan unveils pioneering fiber optic network for seismic safety and disaster preparedness ...

Japan’s new earthquake-detection network lengthens warning times, and researchers in Wales have harnessed nuclear blast ...

In recent years, fiber-optical distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) has been applied to various large-scale infrastructure monitoring areas in smart cities, leading to a new generation of fiber-optic ...

Conclusion To sum up, optical communication is being revolutionized by two exciting technologies: multi-core and hollow-core optical fibers. Hollow-core architecture has benefits in latency and power ...

Fabric-based pressure sensors must consistently deliver stable performance under complex environmental conditions. This necessitates the development of fibers that exhibit high sensitivity and a broad ...

Here, we integrated Fabry–Perot interference (FPI) and fiber Bragg grating (FBG) on an optical fiber by forming a compact fiber sensor with a dual parameter monitoring function of gas pressure and ...