Sensor Review: Volume 12 Issue 2

INTRINSIC FIBRE OPTIC SENSORS

Gordon Oscroft

Numerous articles have been written about the many applications for fibre optic sensors and their future potential. However, very few products are yet in volume production.

SILICON SENSORS MlCROENGINEERING: LAST OCTOBER BNF‐FULMER OFFICIALLY LAUNCED ITS MICROENGINEERING CENTRE FOR DESIGN AND WAFER SCALE PRODUCTION OF SILICON SENSORS AND ACTUATORS. IF THE CENTRE GROWS AS EXPECTED IT WILL ESTABLISH A EUROPEAN IMPORTANT TECHNOLOGY

Jack Hollingum

Sensors engineered on silicon chips have tremendous development potential and are attracting considerable attention in the USA and Japan. By contrast British research and…

FUSING IMAGE SYNTHESIS AND COMPUTER VISION

Cheryl Pellerin

Researchers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne have combined computer graphics and vision techniques in a new tool used to interpret scenes. The Model‐based…

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES IN ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY: RECENT ADVANCES

Radislav Potyrailo, Sergei Golubkov

Achievements in guided wave optics have had a great influence on many areas of technology for several years. Fibre optic communication links, sensors for various parameters…

DISTRIBUTED FIBRE OPTIC TEMPERATURE SENSING

Peter R. Orrell

Since the introduction of the fibre optic distributed temperature system by York in 1986, the system has been successfully applied in a number of areas. The monitoring of…