Recent Progress of Optical Fiber Based Biosensors

Dear Colleagues,

With the development of fiber sensing technology, optical fiber-based biosensors have attracted more and more attention, due to their unique features, like immune to electromagnetic interference, their less invasive nature, resistance to acid and alkali, no requirement of reference sensor, miniature sensor head, etc. Here, we are pleased to announce a Special Issue in Biosensors called “Recent Progress of Optical Fiber Based Biosensors”.

This Special Issue will focus on the recent developments in the field of optical fiber-based biosensors. It aims to bring attention to the state-of-the-art of the development and innovations in the field of fiber optic biosensors, including new design, sensing materials, fabrication processes and biomedical applications. Contributed research articles and reviews on applications of novel or existing fiber optic biosensors are welcome.  Relevant topics include, but are not limited to:

• New design of biosensors
• Smart biosensing
• Materials for the advanced fiber optic biosensors
• Fabrication of fiber biosensors
• Lab-on-fibers
• Fiber optic biosensors based on fiber laser, SPR, fiber grating, fiber interferometer, tapered or etched fiber
• Health monitoring
• Radiation monitoring in radiotherapy
• Disposable biosensors
• Signal and data processing in biosensing system

Dr. Ginu Rajan
Dr. Yanhua Luo
Prof. Dr. Yuan Gong
Guest Editors

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