Events
IFOS
Wednesday 13 October @ 13:00 - 13:15
Advanced Distributed Fiber-Optic Sensing for Smart Equipment, Plant, and Infrastructure Applications
Fiber optic sensing is being increasingly utilized for smart equipment, plant and infrastructure applications. In this presentation, we will consider examples including smart generators, manufacturing equipment, and smart railways. In addition to harsh environment tolerant sensors, support for these applications is provided by a range of fiber Bragg grating and other interrogation instrumentation that feature precision sampling over a broad frequency range (kHz to MHz) as well as a wide wavelength range (O band to U band).
Speaker
Richard Black, Chief Scientist, IFOS
Richard Black’s work includes the development of optical fiber sensing systems with application to structural health monitoring, robotics, and medical devices. He is a founding member and Chief Scientist at Intelligent Fiber Optic Systems Corporation, San Jose, CA. He was an Invited Professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL, Lausanne), and has held visiting positions at photonics labs including Stanford University and the University of Arizona’s Optical Sciences Center. At the Ecole Polytechnique de Montréal, he performed work on modal interferometric optical devices such as tapered fibers. He received the B.Sc.(Hons.) degree in physics from the University of Canterbury, Canterbury, New Zealand, and the Ph.D. degree in fiber optics from the Research School of Physical Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia. Dr. Black is a life member of OSA, SPIE, ASM International and ACM and a senior member of IEEE and AIAA.
