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Patrick Chan demonstrates one way that the Fiber Optic Sensing System is used by bending a fiber with a 3D...
This graph depicts the increased signal quality possible with optical fibers made from ZBLAN, a family of...
jsc2019e048247 (9/28/2018) — Preflight imagery of the Fiber Optic Production hardware. Physical Optics Corporation’s...
jsc2019e048245 (3/6/2019) — Preflight imagery of the Fiber Optic Production hardware. Physical Optics Corporation’s...
jsc2019e048246 (9/28/2018) — Preflight imagery of the Fiber Optic Production hardware. Physical Optics Corporation’s...
Shideh Naderi works on designing the electronics for the next generation Fiber Optic Sensing System.
The Fiber Optic Sensing System team includes in the front from left Nick Finks, Ryan Warner, Patrick Chan and Paul...
iss054e005568 (12-26-2017) --- View of the Made In Space Fiber Optics Locker installed in ExPRESS (Expedite the...
Scarning electron microscope images of the surface of ZBLAN fibers pulled in microgravity (ug) and on Earth (1g)...
Sections of ZBLAN fibers pulled in a conventional 1-g process (right) and in experiments aboard NASA's KC-135...
iss054e005575 (12-26-2017) --- Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Norishige Kanai poses for a photo...
Alejandro Rodriguez Perez and Joe Thomes, members of the fiber optic & photonic team, configure the Ocean Color...
Although the new fiber optic sensors on the Ikhana, which are located on fibers that are the diameter of a human...
NASA engineer Larry Hudson and Ikhana ground crew member James Smith work on a ground validation test with new fiber...
Ikhana fiber optic wing shape sensor team: clockwise from left, Anthony "Nino" Piazza, Allen Parker, William Ko and...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Systems Research Aircraft (SRA), a highly modified F-18 jet...
NASA research engineer Jonathan Lopez secures a Compact Fiber Optic Sensing System unit, also known as a FOSS Rocket...
A tank is used in CryoFILL experiments to liquefy oxygen at minus 290 degrees Fahrenheit as it could be done on the...
Jonathan Lopez works on a hypersonic Fiber Optic Sensing System at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in...
A tank is used in CryoFILL experiments to liquefy oxygen at minus 290 degrees Fahrenheit as it could be done on the...
A tank is used in CryoFILL experiments to liquefy oxygen at minus 290 degrees Fahrenheit as it could be done on the...
A tank is used in CryoFILL experiments to liquefy oxygen at minus 290 degrees Fahrenheit as it could be done on the...
Jonathan Lopez and Allen Parker confer on the hypersonic Fiber Optic Sensor System at NASA’s Armstrong Flight...
Jonathan Lopez prepares the hypersonic Fiber Optic Sensing System for vibration tests in the Environmental...