Optical Sensors: Features and Applications
A special issue of Optics (ISSN 2673-3269). This special issue belongs to the section "Engineering Optics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 July 2026 | Viewed by 399
Special Issue Editor
Interests: optical and wireless communications; channel modeling and network security; next-generation computing; enabling and emerging technologies
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue, which is entitled "Optical Sensors: Features and Applications," highlights the most recent developments, applications, and new uses of optical sensing technologies in various fields, including communication, medical, industrial, environmental, and security applications. Due to the reason that optical sensors offer high sensitivity, high bandwidth, electromagnetic immunity, and remote, real-time surveillance capabilities, they are critical to the development of next-generation systems in smart infrastructure, autonomous platforms, healthcare diagnostics, and photonic communications.
We welcome original research and review articles on novel optical sensor designs, materials, and architectures (e.g., photonic crystal fibers, integrated photonics, and plasmonic and nano-optical structures) and signal processing, calibration, noise mitigation, and AI-enabled interpretation of optical measurements.
We are looking for articles and original research contributions that thoroughly explore revolutionary optical sensor concepts, novel materials, and cutting-edge architectures (including photonic crystal fibers, integrated photonics, and plasmonic and nano-optical structures). Application-driven studies showing the performance under harsh or resource-constrained environments, e.g., wearable/implantable medical sensing, chemical and biological detection, structural health monitoring, free-space optical links, and intelligent transportation systems, are especially attractive to us. System-level demonstrations and experimental validations of the deployment and commercialization of the real world are, in particular, of great interest to us. Besides that, research on the integration of optical sensing with edge computing, IoT, or advanced communication networks (such as 5G/6G and space/aerial platforms) is also highly welcomed.
Dr. Yousef Fazea
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- optical sensing and detection
- photonic crystal fiber (PCF) sensors
- free-space and fiber-optic sensing
- biomedical and chemical optical sensors
- structural health and environmental monitoring
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