As the demand for bandwidth and high-speed transport grows, so does the use of fiber-optic based transport. One of the enabling technologies associated with optical transport are Fiber Bragg gratings ...

The idea for the sensor came while researcher Andrew Gillooly was working at Aston University spin-off Indigo photonics (now owned by the UK sensor specialist Insensys) developing high quality CFBGs.

The spectrum of laser technologies available to hackers has gradually widened from basic gas lasers through CO2 tubes, diode lasers, and now fiber lasers. One of the newer entries is the MOPA laser, ...