Developing new frontiers of optical fiber sensors and devices

开发敏感的方法来监测基础设施的健康状况和衡量环境风险正在成为全球优先事项。在灾难性故障之前评估和潜在地检测结构变形或损伤的能力需要对包括通信电缆、管道和其他大型基础设施的关键设施进行本地和全球真实的时间监测。为了实现这一目标，它是至关重要的，以开发本地和全球的动态和静态的监测方法，具有长的传感长度和高空间分辨率，包括同时多个参数的测量。目前无法满足这些要求的监测方法代表了分布式传感研究的前沿。旨在革新民用结构安全和提高材料加工质量的技术开发，设计和开发高速（> 40 Gb/s）通信光纤和系统以及光学数据存储是我整个研究计划的重点。

The development of sensitive methods to monitor infrastructure health and to gauge environmental risk is becoming a global priority. The ability to assess and potentially detect structural deformation or impairment prior to catastrophic failure, requires local and global real time monitoring of critical installations including communication cables, pipelines and other large infrastructures. To achieve this goal, it is critical to develop local and global dynamic and static monitoring methods with long sensing length and high spatial resolution that incorporate simultaneous multiple parameter measurements. Such monitoring methods which are currently unable to meet these requirements represent the frontiers of distributed sensing research. The development of techniques aimed at revolutionizing civil structural safety and at improving the quality of material processing, design and developing the high speed (>40Gb/s) communication fibers and systems, and optical data storage is the focus of my overall research program.