New York, Virginia, New Jersey Inventors Develop Fiber-Optic Sensor

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- Zhiyong Wang of Clifton Park, N.Y., James R. Heflin Jr. of Blacksburg, Va., and Siddharth Ramachandran of Hoboken, N.J., have developed a fiber-optic sensor or modulator.

According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The provision of an ionic self-assembled multilayer (ISAM) film on a fiber-optic element including a long period grating (LPG) by a simple, room temperature process provides tuning of the LPG and/or high sensitivity to the refractive in . . .