Special Issue on Fiber-Optics. Medical Applications of Optical Fibers.

PAPER Special Issue on Optical Fiber Sensors

distributed sensings on temperature and strain have been extensively investigated based on Raman [1] and Brillouin [2] scattering methods, respectively. During the course of our developments on a new sensor which can work as one of sensing elements for multi-point detection using a Rayleighscattering based OTDR through an optical fiber network, a hetero-core fiber optic sensor was exploratively...

Optical-Fiber Measurement Systems for Medical Applications

After telecommunications, also medicine has been revolutionized by optical fibers. They were firstly used, in the early sixties, to visualize internal anatomical sites by illuminating endoscopes. The essential technological solution to obtain good quality images was the introduction of “cladding” during the fifties. The result was the development of minimally invasive tools that have become ess...

Optical Power Measurements: Applications in Fiber Optics and Ultraviolet Radiometry

Scanning the issue - Special Issue on Applications of Superconductivity

The phenomenon of zero resistance at low cryogenic temperatures was discovered in 1911 by Prof. H. K. Onnes in the Netherlands in the course of studying the low-temperature properties of metals. He tried and failed to make an electromagnet of lead wire, and it was not until 1961 that the method to make superconducting materials for successful high-field magnets was discovered. Meanwhile, in 193...

Introduction to special issue on adaptive optics for vision.