Strain-Temperature Distributed Sensor (IMAGE)

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Strain-Temperature Distributed Sensor

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Researchers developed a faster strain-temperature sensor that features 1 million sensing points over a single 10-kilometer of standard fiber. It could be useful for monitoring the integrity of large structures and for biomedical sensing.

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This work is a derivative from Vasco da Gama Bridge by Duncan Rawlinson used under CC BY-NC 2.0 and licensed by Alejandro Dominguez-Lopez, University of Alcala, under CC BY-NC 2.0.

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