As polymer networks infiltrated with water, hydrogels constitute the major components of the
human body; and hydrogels have been widely used in applications that closely interact with …

Aging degradation and seismic damage of civil infrastructures have become a serious issue
for society, and one promising technology for monitoring their conditions is optical fiber …

An approach to achieve simultaneous measurement of refractive index and temperature is
proposed by using a Mach–Zehnder interferometer realized on tapered single-mode optical …

Light-matter interactions that lead to nonthermal changes in size of the sample constitute a
photostrictive effect in many compounds. The photostriction phenomenon was observed in …

Advanced optical fibers and photonic structures play important roles in neuroscience
research, along with recent progresses of genetically encoded optical actuators and …

While most photomechanical materials developed to date have relied on free‐space
illumination to drive actuation, this strategy fails when direct line‐of‐site access is precluded …

This paper describes the properties and the engineering applications of the smart materials,
especially in the mechatronics field. Even though there are several smart materials which all …

Polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) optical fibres are fabricated by a preform drawing process.
The Raman spectra of PMMA fibres are recorded using a diode pumped solid state laser …

Brillouin scattering properties in a perfluorinated graded-index polymer optical fiber (POF)
with 120 μ m core diameter were experimentally investigated using a laser with an operating …

An in-line one-fiber approach to realize simultaneous measurement of salinity and
temperature is proposed. The sensor system, which consists of multiplexed polymer-coated …