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Fiber Optic Distributed Sensors for High-resolution Temperature Field Mapping
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Towards lasing systems for distributed fibre sensing
1EPFL - Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Institute of Electrical and Micro Engineering, Station 11, 1015, Lausanne, Switzerland. luc.thevenaz@epfl.ch.
Light, Science & Applications
|February 24, 2026
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A novel concept for distributed fiber sensing has recently been introduced, in which the sensing fiber itself forms a laser cavity. This configuration yields a high-quality response that is largely independent of position, thereby enhancing measurement accuracy and acquisition speed, and opening new avenues towards higher-performance sensing technologies.
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