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Photonic crystal fiber Bragg grating based sensors: opportunities for applications in healthcare
2011
Optical Sensors and Biophotonics III
We first introduce how the unique properties of PCF can benefit Bragg grating based temperature insensitive pressure and transverse load sensing. ...
Then we describe how the latest developments in mPOF Bragg grating technology can enhance optical fiber pressure sensing. ...
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS This work was financially supported by the European Commission (EU) FP7 project "PHOSFOS" -Photonic Skins for Optical Sensing. Vrije Univ. ...
doi:10.1117/12.901240
fatcat:r7gvjhfggrau3awh7wly2sarja
Fiber Bragg grating sensors for monitoring of physical parameters: a comprehensive review
2020
Optical Engineering: The Journal of SPIE
Basic fundamentals of FBG and recent progress of fiber Bragg grating-based sensors used in various applications for temperature, pressure, liquid level, strain, and refractive index sensing have been reviewed ...
Fiber Bragg grating has embraced the area of fiber optics since the early days of its discovery, and most fiber optic sensor systems today make use of fiber Bragg grating technology. ...
Especially for maintenance of dynamic performance of structures, it is very essential to monitor shape of the structure at real time. ...
doi:10.1117/1.oe.59.6.060901
fatcat:3mjwmvas4baejiv7ifowzfva2u
Optical Fiber Sensor Performance Evaluation in Soft Polyimide Film with Different Thickness Ratios
2019
Sensors
To meet the application requirements of curvature measurement for soft biomedical robotics and flexible morphing wings of aircraft, the optical fiber Bragg grating (FBG) shape sensor for soft robots and ...
The designed FBG sensor embedded in polyimide films shows good consistency in repeated experiments for soft actuator and morphing wing measurement; the FBG sensing method therefore has potential for real ...
As a result, in recent years some soft sensors and sensing methods that can be used for structural sensing and monitoring have been desired [9] [10] [11] . ...
doi:10.3390/s19040790
fatcat:63qvnvbpnjdmfipciigbg7t3nu
Soft and Stretchable Polymeric Optical Waveguide-Based Sensors for Wearable and Biomedical Applications
2019
Sensors
Here, we review recent progress in soft and stretchable optical waveguides and sensors, including advanced structural design, fabrication strategies, and functionalities. ...
The past decades have witnessed the rapid development in soft, stretchable, and biocompatible devices for applications in biomedical monitoring, personal healthcare, and human–machine interfaces. ...
A stretchable fiber-optic strain sensor made up of a sinuous-shaped fiber-Bragg-grating (FBG) embedded in a slab PDMS substrate has been fabricated by using 3D-printed mold [84] . ...
doi:10.3390/s19173771
pmid:31480393
pmcid:PMC6749420
fatcat:axryj7pogfeqtfmm3yrmokdhhu
Design, Measurement and Shape Reconstruction of Soft Surgical Actuator Based on Fiber Bragg Gratings
2018
Applied Sciences
Consequently, this paper proposes a real-time 3D shape reconstruction method of soft surgical actuator which has an embedded optical fiber with two Fiber Bragg Grating (FBG) sensors. ...
of these structures for real soft surgical actuators. ...
for real-time shape monitoring in the field of soft robotics and flexible biosensor monitoring. ...
doi:10.3390/app8101773
fatcat:5utfwgunhnbinnyob5rzokb32e
Fiber Optic-Based Pressure Sensing Surface for Skin Health Management in Prosthetic and Rehabilitation Interventions
[chapter]
2012
Biomedical Engineering - Technical Applications in Medicine
Acknowledgement The work presented here was partially supported by EU-FP7-SME-2008-1, No 232479,-IASiS and SMARTSocket: FP7-PEOPLE-IAPP Grant agreement 251649. ...
The development of the optical fiber 2-D pressure sensing pad takes advantage of the highly sensitive 1-D Fiber Bragg Grating (FBG)-based array structures, which are arranged in a 2-dimensional sensing ...
clinicians for its real time display capabilities and resolution. ...
doi:10.5772/50574
fatcat:6guc432vujfhngoeihbeol72pi
Multifunctional Smart Optical Fibers: Materials, Fabrication, and Sensing Applications
2019
Photonics
Widely used techniques to develop fiber sensors, i.e., fiber Bragg grating and interferometry, are discussed in terms of sensing principles and fabrication methods. ...
Lastly, sensing applications in oil/gas, optofluidics, and particularly healthcare monitoring using specialty optical fibers are demonstrated. ...
Sensing Applications
Pressure Sensing Based on the FBG and Interferometry There is a great need for sensing in the oil and gas industry because real-time monitoring of oil pressure and flow rate plays ...
doi:10.3390/photonics6020048
fatcat:ouhaaklcbfbvzeu2gvaf6qpv3e
Multifunctional Textile Platform for Fiber Optic Wearable Temperature-Monitoring Application
2019
Micromachines
This research presents a developed fabric temperature sensor by adopting fiber Bragg grating (FBG) sensors and processing via a textile platform. ...
Wearable sensing technologies have been developed rapidly in the last decades for physiological and biomechanical signal monitoring. ...
Acknowledgments: The authors would like to express thankfulness to the support by Chi Chiu Chan's Optical Fiber Sensor Group of Sino-German College of Intelligent Manufacturing, Shenzhen Technology University ...
doi:10.3390/mi10120866
pmid:31835484
pmcid:PMC6953031
fatcat:5mmcauavcndhzmxy5pwue7xsym
Table of contents
2021
IEEE Sensors Journal
J. da Silva, and C. Martelli 3058 Data-Driven Shape Sensing of a Surgical Continuum Manipulator Using an Uncalibrated Fiber Bragg Grating Sensor ................................................ S. ...
Yue, and T. Yan 3035 A Fiber Bragg Grating Force Sensor With Sensitization Structure ..... D. Hu, S. Lv, Y. Guo, H. He, and J. ...
doi:10.1109/jsen.2020.3045951
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Fiber Bragg Gratings as e-Health Enablers: An Overview for Gait Analysis Applications
[chapter]
2018
Applications of Optical Fibers for Sensing [Working Title]
The use of fiber Bragg gratings (FBGs) as e-Health enablers has presented itself as a new topic to be investigated, exploiting the FBGs' advantages over its electronic counterparts. ...
Based in the described mechanisms, FBG sensors have a wide field of applications that range from their use for structural health monitoring, in oil and aeronautic industry and also as biomedical sensors ...
Fiber Bragg gratings: an introduction Fiber Bragg gratings (FBGs) are sensing elements based on the longitudinal modulation of the refractive index of the optical fiber core. ...
doi:10.5772/intechopen.81136
fatcat:s5apgrtxobdn7cn74xpmbqcfke
Optical Fiber Integrated Functional Micro-/Nanostructure Induced by Two-Photon Polymerization
2020
Frontiers in Materials
Recently, two-photon polymerization technology is attracting increasing research interest due to its superiorities of high precision, flexibility and diversity of polymer materials. ...
Owing to the limitation of optical fiber materials and conventional fabrication methods, the development of optical fiber devices has encountered a bottleneck. ...
This device has significant potential for future sensing, cellular manipulation and microscale surgery due to the ability to manipulate soft/fragile microscale objects in real time. ...
doi:10.3389/fmats.2020.586496
fatcat:lmz36apqtjd5xhoyct7euhzcz4
Incorporation of Fiber Bragg Sensors for Shape Memory Polyurethanes Characterization
2017
Sensors
In this work, fiber Bragg grating (FBG) sensors were embedded into SMPU samples aiming to study and characterize its shape memory effect. ...
The shape memory characterization is normally accomplished using mechanical testing coupled with a heat source, where a detailed knowledge of the heat cycle and its influence on the material properties ...
Due to their unique characteristics, fiber Bragg grating (FBG)-based systems became one of the most attractive technologies for many sensing applications [12] [13] [14] [15] . ...
doi:10.3390/s17112600
pmid:29137136
pmcid:PMC5712890
fatcat:qzbnqbbdr5bitok32rxlualf3e
Fiber optic micro sensor for the measurement of tendon forces
2012
BioMedical Engineering OnLine
The sensor incorporated fiber Bragg gratings and micro-fabricated stainless steel housings. A fiber Bragg grating is an optical device that is spectrally sensitive to axial strain. ...
Stainless steel housings were designed to convert radial forces applied to the housing into axial forces that could be sensed by the fiber Bragg grating. ...
Neil Sharkey and Stephen Piazza of the Penn State Universities CELOS laboratory for use of their Dynamic Gait Simulator (DGS). ...
doi:10.1186/1475-925x-11-77
pmid:23033868
pmcid:PMC3494611
fatcat:mg7qbb4t2fea5j5tuzxkcaajou
Recent Progress of Imprinted Polymer Photonic Waveguide Devices and Applications
2018
Polymers
Versatile functional devices can be manufactured using a simple process, with low cost and potential mass-manufacturing. ...
The passive polymer waveguide devices for wavelength filtering, power splitting, and light collecting, and the active polymer waveguide devices based on the thermal-optic tuning effect, are introduced. ...
A PDMS soft mold with 80 µm period grating patterns is used to stamp on the uncured UV15 layer due to its good flexibility for its better accuracy for structure replication. ...
doi:10.3390/polym10060603
pmid:30966637
pmcid:PMC6404155
fatcat:h6n36dcl5fgujcr6deicdev6kq
Front Matter: Volume 10168
2017
Sensors and Smart Structures Technologies for Civil, Mechanical, and Aerospace Systems 2017
SPIE uses a seven-digit CID article numbering system structured as follows: The five digits correspond to the SPIE volume number. The last two digits indicate publication order within the volume using ...
A unique citation identifier (CID) number is assigned to each article at the time of publication. ...
monolithic sensors for real-time broadband distributed monitoring of large civil and industrial infrastructures
3S Inversion-based imaging using lagrange polynomial parameterization and genetic algorithm ...
doi:10.1117/12.2280123
fatcat:6neb3n7l7rd4bicq5fjwtobqli
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