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Area of Science:

  • Materials Science
  • Biomedical Engineering
  • Textile Engineering

Background:

  • Smart textiles are enhancing wearable technology, particularly through fiber optics.
  • Fiber optic technology is versatile, used in communication, sensing, and healthcare.
  • Integrating fiber optics into textiles allows for personalized wearable devices on soft, curved body parts.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To review wearable fiber optic applications in smart textiles.
  • To summarize working principles like side emission and modulation techniques.
  • To discuss textile fabrication methods for embedding optical fibers.

Main Methods:

  • Review of existing literature on wearable fiber optics and smart textiles.
  • Analysis of optical fiber working principles (side emission, wavelength/intensity modulation).
  • Examination of textile fabrication techniques (weaving, knitting) for fiber integration.

Main Results:

  • Wearable fiber optics offer diverse applications: fashion, esthetics, vital signal monitoring, and disease treatment.
  • Key working principles for fiber optic integration into textiles are identified.
  • Weaving and knitting are presented as effective methods for embedding optical fibers into fabrics.

Conclusions:

  • The synergy of optical fibers and textiles is a rapidly growing field.
  • This work provides a comprehensive overview of textile-based wearable fiber optics.
  • Further improvements in wearable fiber optic applications can be achieved through advanced textile fabrication techniques.