Fibre Optic Sensing using Photonic Integrated Circuits

In the past few decades there is a rising awareness with regard to photonics as an enabling technology. The applications are extremely broad and will keep growing rapidly. Photonics is regarded not only as supplemental but also as a base technology similar to what electronics has become nowadays. Integrated Electronics is already globally used in billions of applications and its functionality is still increasing according to Moore's Law. Similarly, Integrated Photonics is emerging as the generic development platform for many future applications - certainly not to replace electronics but to provide an enormous surplus in capabilities for an extremely wide range of applications. Integrated Photonics plays a major role in the transition of current conventional optical systems to next-generation instrumentation and provides all the advantages such as smaller size, lesser weight, lower power consumption and costs. One example of a fast growing application field for Integrated Photonics is Fibre-Optic Sensing. For this area, Technobis has become a major solution and system provider as it addresses important value chain aspects and generic integrated photonics packaging standards.