Sensors

The continuous monitoring of physical and chemical parameters in harsh environments, or of physiological parameters in the medical field, is required in several sensing applications. Optical sensors can perform these multiple functions in a wide range of applications to improve the quality and speed of industrial processes, for quality control, medical diagnosis or for preventing and monitoring possible anomalies.

Technology

Multitel develops customized solutions for chemical, physical or biological sensing based on Optical Fibre Sensors (OFS), Photonic Integrated Circuits (PIC), and Free-Space Optics (FSO).

Various transduction mechanisms can be implemented, including e.g. Fibre Bragg Grating (FBG), micro and nano-resonators (ring resonators, photonic crystals…). Brillouin- and Rayleigh Optical Time Domain Reflectometry (OTDR), fluorescence… Multitel’s know-how goes from the numerical modelling to the design and prototyping of the sensors, the optical interrogation system and the system for data acquisition and analysis.

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Applications

Thanks to our many links with partners from all over Europe in a wide range of industrial sectors, our technologies cover a wide range of applications:

• Optical biosensors for the detection of chemical species or biological molecules.
• Optical fibre sensors embedded in fabrics for healthcare parameter monitoring
• Optical fibre sensors embedded in composite materials for Structural Health Monitoring (SHM)
• Remote Sensing and Metrology

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