Building Functional Fibers (broadcast Friday, July 17th, 2009)

A micrograph showing the cross-section of a new optoelectronic fiber. Fink lab / MIT

Researchers have been able to build a fabric-based camera out of a mesh of light-sensitive fibers. Writing in the journal Nano Letters, a team at MIT describes engineering optoelectronic fibers capable of detecting the direction and wavelength of incident light. The team then used those fibers to build an assembly of those fibers that can detect images without the use of a lens. We'll talk about the work, potential uses for the technology, and other advances in photonics.

Guests

Yoel Fink
CEO, OmniGuide
Associate Professor of Materials Science
Principal Investigator, Research Laboratory of Electronics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, Massachusetts

Related Links

• MIT press release
• Technology Review article
• Nano Letters: Exploiting Collective Effects of Multiple Optoelectronic Devices Integrated in a Single Fiber (subscription)
• MIT Photonic Bandgap Fibers and Devices group
• Yoel Fink movie

Segment produced by:Charles Bergquist

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