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The ProblemOptical fibers serve as excellent sensing platform. However, the sensing of chemicals using standard fibers faces an inherent challenge. Light is confined to the inner core, whereas the test media of interest are outside the boundary of the fiber cladding, and even its coating. Standard ...

The ProblemOptical fibers serve as excellent sensing platform. In distributed analysis protocols, a parameter of interest is mapped along a fiber under test, and each fiber segment serves as an independent sensing node. Both temperature and mechanical strain can be mapped based on the physical ...

The ProblemThe localization precision which is limited by the square root of N is obtained due to non-coherent addition of the collected photons. An increase in the precision is required as it leads to significant increase in the imaging resolution for the same amount of illumination of ...