Fibre optic sensors: a future moneyspinner?

Abstract

Are fibre‐optic sensors a money making technology? It is a pertinent question given the fact that they have been identified as an area of particular interest within sensor technology and many people ‐ industrialists and academics alike ‐ have been proposing fibre‐optics as the sensor technology of the 1990’s. Add to that the existence of a battery of research laboratories and small entrepreneurial start‐up companies, particularly in the USA, and the evidence seems to be in favour of a major upswing about to take place in the field.

Citation

(1989), "Fibre optic sensors: a future moneyspinner?", Sensor Review, Vol. 9 No. 3, pp. 128-129. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb060030