Innovative Photonic Sensors for Safety and Security, Part I: Fundamentals, Infrastructural and Ground Transportations
Aldo Minardo, Romeo Bernini, Gaia Maria Berruti, Giovanni Breglio, Francesco Antonio Bruno, S. Buontempo, Stefania Campopiano, Ester Catalano, M. Consales, Agnese Coscetta, Andrea Cusano, Maria Alessandra Cutolo, Pasquale Di Palma, Flavio Esposito, F. Fienga, M. Giordano, Antonio Iele, Agostino Iadicicco, Andrea Irace, Mohammed Janneh, A. Laudati, Marco Leone, Luca Maresca, Vincenzo Romano Marrazzo, Marco Pisco, Giuseppe Quero, Michele Riccio, Anubhav Srivastava, Patrizio Vaiano, Luigi Zeni, Antonello Cutolo
Abstract
Our group, involving researchers from different universities in Campania, Italy, has been working for the last twenty years in the field of photonic sensors for safety and security in healthcare, industrial and environment applications. This is the first in a series of three companion papers. In this paper, we introduce the main concepts of the technologies employed for the realization of our photonic sensors. Then, we review our main results concerning the innovative applications for infrastructural and transportation monitoring.