Hollow glass fiber sensors withstand extreme radiation in particle accelerator tests

A slender glass fiber no thicker than a human hair placed across a particle beam could improve accelerator monitoring. A team ...
Hackaday

Teardown Of HP Optical Link And Signal Investigations Using Siglent Technology

Anything with a laser has undeniable hacker appeal, even if the laser’s task is as pedestrian as sending data over a fiber optic cable. [Shahriar] from [The Signal Path] must agree, and you ...
Nanowerk

PINovAlign automated fiber alignment system for silicon photonics

The F-141 PINovAlign is a cost-optimized, high-speed photonics alignment system available in 3 to 6-axis single- and ...
CompositesWorld

Flexible, automatic NDT platform for manufacturing composites

IRT Jules Verne, working with Airbus, Daher and French consortium developed a mobile robotic inspection platform that uses ...
eLife

Excitatory cholecystokinin neurons in CA3 area regulate the navigation learning and neuroplasticity

This study shows that excitatory cholecystokinin (CCK)-expressing neurons in hippocampal area CA3 influence hippocampal-dependent memory using multiple methods to manipulate excitatory CCK-expressing ...
IEEE

Air-Coupled Fiber-Optic Ultrasonic Sensor Based on an Open-Cavity and Optically Tuned Polymer Microbubble

Abstract: An exceptionally sensitive and photothermally tunable polymer microbubble is fabricated at the fiber tip for enhanced ultrasonic detection. A modified acrylate adhesive (MAA) is applied to ...
IEEE

Soft Polymer Fiber-Optic Sensors for Intelligent Touchpad Applications

Abstract: In this study, we propose a soft polymer optical fiber (POF) sensor for sensitive and robust mechanical deformation recognition. The multimodal sensor enables high-precision detection of ...