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Article: SPI Awarded QinetiQ Fibre Laser Contract; - New in-fibre DFB Lasers Will Be Used in Acoustic Sensing Application.
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- December 10, 2002
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Business Editors/High-Tech Writers
SOUTHAMPTON, England--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 10, 2002
Optical components supplier, SPI, has been awarded a contract by QinetiQ (the UK science and technology research company formed from the larger part of the Defence Evaluation and Research Agency) to design, develop and manufacture distributed feedback fibre lasers (DFBs). It is planned that the lasers are to be used in an application for sensing acoustic signals.
DFB fibre lasers are finding important applications in a wide range of functions such as in hydrophony, seismology, ocean bed surveying, multiphase flow measurements, and sub-sea oil and gas pipeline ...