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Integrated Fiber Monitors Itself for Thermal Leakage

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Anne L. Fischer

If there are failures in the high-power fiber optic lines used in medical, industrial and defense applications, the problems can be huge. It is, therefore, important to be able to predict and prevent such failures. Researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge have developed a fiber with an embedded device that integrates optical, electrical and thermal elements for monitoring optical transport. The fiber is made up of a polymer insulator, a large-bandgap semiconductor, a narrow-bandgap semiconductor and metallic elements. The fiber transmission element guides 10.6-µm...Read full article

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    Published: January 2006
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