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Optica: Hair-thin fiber microphone developed to monitor critical power grid systems
February 03, 2026
WASHINGTON, Feb. 3 [Category: Medical] -- Optica, formerly the Optical Society, posted the following news release:

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Hair-thin fiber microphone developed to monitor critical power grid systems

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Immune to extreme heat and high voltage, new device could listen for problems inside high-voltage transformers

WASHINGTON -Researchers have fabricated a hair-thin microphone made entirely of silica fiber that can detect a large range o . . .

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