Flat fiber (IMAGE)

KTH, Royal Institute of Technology

Flat fiber

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A section cut from more than 100m of flat optic fiber developed by researchers at KTH Royal Institute of Technology and University of Southampton. In lab demonstrations, the fiber proved 1000 times more sensitive than standard optic fiber in measuring pressure.

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Pawel Bartlomiej Maniewski

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