The research on engineering experiment is a key step in translating technical development to industrial application. Active, optical range imaging sensors collect three-dimensional coordinate data from object surfaces and can be useful in a wide variety of automation applications, including shape acquisition, bin picking, assembly, inspection, gaging, robot navigation, medical diagnosis, and ca...

With diameter close to or below the wavelength of guided light and high index contrast between the fiber core and the surrounding, an optical microfiber shows a variety of interesting waveguiding properties, including widely tailorable optical confinement, evanescent fields and waveguide dispersion. Among various microfiber applications, optical sensing has been attracting increasing research i...

Chemo—optical micro-sensing systems, whether based on fiber optics or integrated optics show promising prospects. The physical principles underlying chemo—optical waveguide sensors are discussed with the accent on linear evanescent field sensors. The role of the chemo-optical transduction layer is emphasized. Restriction of the freedom of design by technological uncertainties is briefly dealt w...

In this paper most of the important telemedicine applications with optical fiber sensor were introduced, and they included two techniques of using optical fiber sensors with monitoring and treating patients remotely through the operation. Optical sensors with MRI compatibility have been used in these two fields through catheter and biopsy techniques. This survey is the first one in which the op...