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Micronor has introduced what it calls the world’s first commercially available fibre-optic position sensor (FOPS). The all-optical design combines interference-free sensing, long-distance transmission and absolute angular measurement from 0° to 360° with 13-bit (8192 count) resolution. The FOPS system was developed in response to sustained demand from customers, says Dennis Horwitz, Vice President of Sales and Marketing for the supplier of automation and motion control products. Some of its features have sparked interest among medical device manufacturers.

Micronor’s FOPS consists of the MR332 passive sensor and MR330 controller, which are optically linked with Duplex LC multimode fibre connections. Micronor devoted five years of R&D work to the development of the MR330 series, resulting in a true absolute fibre-optic position sensor based on a novel optical technique that provides all the salient features and advantages of fibre optics, according to the company. It has already attracted the attention of some medical device OEMs, notes Horwitz.

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