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The development of fiber-optic technology was mainly driven by the requirements of the telecommunications industry. Nonetheless one should not overlook that telecommunications is not the only application of fiber optics. The other major application area is in metrology and data acquisition.
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Mitschke, F. (2016). Fiber-Optic Sensors. In: Fiber Optics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-52764-1_12
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