The benefits of operating fusion devices, such as tokamaks and stellarators, at high fields
make high-temperature superconducting magnets necessary to realize a compact fusion …

In this study, a long-distance optical frequency domain reflectometry (OFDR) with high
spatial resolution based on time division multiplexing is proposed and experimentally …

The EU FASTGRID project aimed at improving the REBCO conductor in order to enhance its
economical attractiveness for the Superconducting Fault Current Limiter (SFCL). Two …

Abstract A Mach-Zehnder Interferometer (MZI) based optical fibre sensing technique,
developed and patented by EPFL, is an efficient and economical way to detect hotspots in …

Particle colliders for high-energy physics are important tools for investigating the
fundamental structure of matter. In circular accelerators, the collision energy of particles is …

A fast hotspot detection technique has been implemented and patented at École
Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) under the European Union project FastGrid …