Recent Progress in Optical and Biomedical Sensing
A special issue of Photonics (ISSN 2304-6732). This special issue belongs to the section "Biophotonics and Biomedical Optics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 December 2026 | Viewed by 88
Special Issue Editors
Interests: integrated photonics; silicon photonic sensors; optical communication
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Interests: high-performance fluorescent probes; tumor diagnosis and treatment; optical biosensing; biomedical photonics
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Optical and biomedical sensing has emerged as one of the most dynamic interdisciplinary fields covering photonics, optoelectronics, analytical chemistry, and biomedical engineering. With rapid advances in photonic integration, high-sensitivity sensing mechanisms, micro/nano-fabrication, and multi-channel multiplexing techniques, optical and biomedical sensing technologies are enabling breakthrough applications in clinical diagnosis, health monitoring, environmental detection, food safety, and biochemical analysis. High-performance optical sensors, integrated photonic sensing chips, resonant enhancement structures, and biomedical detection systems have become core research directions.
This Special Issue aims to collect high-quality original research, review articles, and short communications on the latest advances in optical and biomedical sensing. Potential topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Integrated optical sensors and silicon photonic sensors;
- High-sensitivity optical sensing mechanisms and resonant structures;
- Biomedical photonic sensors and biochemical detection;
- On-chip sensing systems and multiplexed sensing techniques;
- Optical sensing device design, fabrication, and testing;
- Opto-mechanical integration and system packaging;
- Novel materials and structures for optical sensing;
- Applications of optical and biomedical sensors.
Prof. Dr. Mingyu Li
Prof. Dr. Li Li
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- optical sensing
- biomedical sensing
- integrated photonic sensors
- silicon photonics
- resonant sensors
- high-sensitivity sensing
- multiplexed sensing
- on-chip sensing systems
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