The denim and larger apparel industries have long flirted with hemp as a sustainable alternative fiber, but commercial-scale ...

Polymer coating of a rather large diameter on distributed feed-back fiber laser generally damages the laser due to differential strain, and hence its usefulness as an effective packaging for ...

Aiming for structural health monitoring applications in harsh environments, a high-order sapphire fiber Bragg grating (HO-SFBG) written with a femtosecond (fs) laser in a large-diameter sapphire fiber ...