Future Optical Broadband Systems program funds research in optical sensing technologies

As co-applicant, AMOLF group leader Ewold Verhagen receives funding from the NWO program Future Optical Broadband Systems to break the existing technological and economic barriers in the application of optical sensing technologies in industrial systems. Andrea Fiore from TU Eindhoven leads the project called BroadSense. A total amount of 923.000 euros is available for the project, from NWO and industrial co-funders.

Ewold and his colleagues aim to push a new paradigm based on broadband optical sensing, optimized photonic and electronic readout and on holistic sensor system design. This allows for highly precise sensing of various physical parameters while correcting for temperature fluctuations. Ewold says he is looking forward to the collaboration, and to seeing how fundamentally new sensing principles can be applied in industrial sensing problems with immediate economic and societal relevance. These applications include the monitoring of static pressure and dynamic vibrations in industrial systems and wind turbines.

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