The primary research interest covers a broad range of Fiber optics sensing techniques and optical sensors, devices, systems and signal processing. For more information on our current and past projects ...

"Our work addresses a critical challenge in distributed fiber-optic sensing by pushing the boundaries of spatial resolution ... which could have important applications in fields such as structural ...

Seismic activity plays a crucial role in understanding Earth's geological processes, from monitoring natural hazards to imaging subsurface structures. Traditional earthquake detection relies on ...

“Our work addresses a critical challenge in distributed fiber-optic sensing by ... monitoring and industrial process control.” Distributed optical fiber sensors based on Brillouin scattering ...

This study presents a highly sensitive optical fiber sensor for arsenic detection in water, achieving a remarkable 0.09 ppb ...

"The ability to turn fiber optic cables into thousands of seismic sensors has inspired many approaches to use fiber for earthquake detection. However, fiber optic earthquake detection is not an ...

Ph.D. student Hilary Chang recently used the MIT fiber optic cable network to successfully image the ground underneath campus using a method known as distributed acoustic sensing (DAS).