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Using Fiber Optics To Advance Safe And Renewable Energy

Fiber optic cables, it turns out, can be incredibly useful scientific sensors. Researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have studied them for use in carbon sequestration, groundwater mapping, earthquake detection, and monitoring of Arctic permafrost thaw. Now they have been awarded new grants to develop fiber optics for two novel uses: monitoring offshore wind operations and underground natural gas storage.

2 Apr 2020

Fiber Optics Help Improve Safe Storage of Renewable Energy

Scientists have investigated fiber optic cables for use in earthquake detection, groundwater mapping, carbon sequestration, and tracking of Arctic permafrost thaw.

31 Mar 2020

Light Funnel Apparatus and Hypersensitive Optical Detectors

In association with researchers from the University of Rostock, physicists from the University of Würzburg have created a light funnel apparatus that could act as a novel platform for hypersensitive optical detectors.

30 Mar 2020

Researchers Improve Performance Levels in Hollow-Core Fibers

Scientists from the University of Southampton’s Zepler Institute for Photonics and Nanoelectronics have illustrated a new advancement in the performance of hollow-core fibers.

18 Mar 2020

Low-Noise Fiber Link is Set to Expand the Use of Optical Clocks

With the help of an optical telecommunications fiber network, a Japan-based team comprising academic and industrial researchers has linked three laboratories located in a 100-km region.

18 Mar 2020

Ultra-Stable Mounts for Optics & Mirrors

Optical Surfaces Ltd offer a range of high precision mounts developed to support off-axis paraboloids, spheres and optical flats up to 600 mm diameter in applications where stability is important.

From Optical Surfaces Ltd. 13 Mar 2020

Removing X-Ray Optics Helps Study Nonlinear Effects in Atoms

Researchers have now overcome the last hindrance in the filming and photography of processes that occur on the attosecond scale, where one attosecond is billionths of a billionth of a second.

10 Jan 2020

Could This 3D Printing Method Make Fiber Optics Cheaper?

3 Dec 2019

IXF-YDF-6-125 and IXF-2CF-Yb-O-20-130-NL - Two New Specialty Fibers Added to Our Portfolio

LASER COMPONENTS has added to its portfolio two new specialty fibres, a highly doped single clad 6 μm core diameter Ytterbium doped fibre and a low NA double clad 20 μm core diameter Ytterbium doped fibre.

From Laser Components (UK) Ltd. 29 Nov 2019

New Laser-Based Technique to Continuously Monitor Individual Airborne Particles

An optimized technique for monitoring air pollution could be to continuously monitor both the size and optical properties of individual airborne particles.

13 Nov 2019

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