FOS&S

Core Business

Development of fiber optic sensors and sensing systems

FOS&S is a private held company which has been founded out the roots of I.D. FOS Research in 2001. Based on the broad experience of I.D. FOS Research for about 14 years now, FOS&S has build out an extended product and technology portfolio for different market segments: Oil industry, Civil engineering, Geotextile industry, Mining industry, Process industry and Aerospace industry. The most important advantages of Fibre optical sensors are:- They 're rugged passive components resulting in a high life time (20 years) - They form an intrinsic part of the fibre optic cable that can transmit the measurement signal over several tens of kilometres - No interference with electromagnetic radiation, so they can function in many hostile environments where conventional sensors would fail. - They don't make use of electrical signals what makes them explosion safe. - Many sensors can be multiplexed using only one optical fibre, driving down the cost of complex control systems.

FOS&S is specialized in the development and commercialisation of fibre optic sensors and sensing systems. The range of sensors covers physical parameters like temperature, strain, pressure, earth pressure, load, water leakage, humidity, displacement, deformation, ... Technologies used : Fiber Bragg Gratings and Stimulated Brillouin Scattering. These sensors can be read out using different interrogation systems going from handheld interrogators to more complex data logging systems for continuous field operation.

FOS&S has its own laboratories and Bragg gratings production facility in cooperation with high standard technology institutes.

AIRBUS A380 program, with Xenics, FOS&S develop a FBG based structural health monitoring system for aircraft structures (The project IFSA, Fibre Optic Sensors for in flight Aircraft Structural analysis) ESA project (GSTP-3, 2nd announcement opportunity 1-4638/03/NL/PA). The project MASSFOS is dealing with Multiaxial stress and strain sensing using fibre optic sensors.

Climatic chambers, lasers and laser dark room, spectrum analysers and photonic instrumentation. Automatic winding reels and characterisation equipment for cables and sub sea pipelines. Stress and strain measurement and calibration devices for composite materials.Pressure benches for precise calibration of own production pressure and load sensors.