Monday, November 14, 2005
Smart Optical Fibers Could Save Lives
"Lasers are now commonly used for surgery. With them, you can recover a better sense of vision. Or a tumor inside your body can be eliminated. But these laser light beams, which are currently enclosed inside optical fibers, can harm you if they escape from their enclosures. But now, according to Technology Review, MIT researchers have designed smart optical fibers which can monitor their status while the laser is doing its magic inside you and shut it down if a fiber wall is about to break. So far, the technology is only working in labs, but it could be used for medical applications in a few years."
source:http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/11/13/1630200&tid=191&tid=126
source:http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/11/13/1630200&tid=191&tid=126
# posted by dark master : 11/14/2005 10:06:00 AM
