Optical Fiber and Surface Plasmon Resonance Technology for Chemical Sensing
A special issue of Chemosensors (ISSN 2227-9040). This special issue belongs to the section "Optical Chemical Sensors".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 6 April 2026 | Viewed by 29
Special Issue Editors
Interests: optical fiber sensors; diagnostics; monitoring; electric equipment
Interests: surface plasmon resonance; localized surface plasmon resonance; optical fiber; plasmonic optical fiber sensor; nanoplasmonic sensors; optical sensors; optical fiber biosensors; refractive index sensors; optoelectronics; nanofabrication
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Dear Colleagues,
The exploitation of optical fibers and plasmonic phenomena, such as surface plasmon resonance (SPR), localized surface plasmon resonance (LSPR) and hybrid modes, as detection principles, offers several advantages for sensing, such as high signal-to-noise ratio, small size, low cost, flexibility, label-free, real-time detection, and robustness. These sensors are widely applied in biomedicine, biomedical diagnostics, and environmental monitoring due to their high sensitivity and real‐time remote sensing capabilities. Several different optical fiber materials (silica, plastic fiber, etc.) and various optical fiber layouts (heterocore structures, lab-on-a-chip, D-shaped, U shaped, etc.) have been investigated. Furthermore, many methods have been used to enhance their performance, e.g., nanostructures, multilayers, and novel materials, such as MXene.
This Special Issue aims to highlight the recent advances and applications of optical fibers and SPR principles for chemical sensing. Authors are invited to submit work related to novel materials, sensor structures, mechanism studies, and applications. Both review articles and research papers are welcome.
Dr. Letizia De Maria
Dr. Francesco Arcadio
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- optical fibers and plasmonic phenomena
- Surface plasmon resonance (SPR)
- localized surface plasmon resonance (LSPR)
- plasmonic hybrid modes
- novel sensing materials
- sensor structures
- mechanism studies and applications
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