Photonics-Based Sensors For The Commercialization Of Space (Sensors USA 2018)

Electromagnetically immune, small-size, low mass, and highly multiplexable, fiber optic sensors are finding increasing usage in space applications such as structural health monitoring and will be a key technology in the commercialization of space. Key to proliferation of fiber optic sensing systems fiber optic sensors interrogators are small in size, weight and power consumption (SWaP), but high-performance as are currently being enabled by emerging photonic technologies.