Photonics & Optical Fiber Sensors: Recent Advancements, Emerging Trends, and Future Prospects
A special issue of Photonics (ISSN 2304-6732).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 June 2025 | Viewed by 569
Special Issue Editors
Interests: fiber optic sensors; long-period gratings; fiber Bragg gratings; biosensors; Interferometers; fiber chemical sensors; LMR; SERs; SPRs
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Interests: fiber optics sensors; long period gratings; fiber bio-chemical sensors; LMR; SERs; SPR; specialty fiber sensors; optoelectronics
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Interests: photonics; fiber optics sensors; fiber bragg gratings; long period gratings; biomedical sensors; optoelectronic sensors; bandgap sensors
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Photonics and optical fiber sensing is a new generation of sensing technology that senses and transmits signals from external stimuli using optical fibers (or others) as the medium and optical waves or photons as the carrier. Due to its inherent benefits-such as its small size, light weight, cost-effectiveness, resistance to electromagnetic interference, high sensitivity and resolution measurements, resistance to harsh environments, excellent stability, chemical resistance, high multiplexing capability, and remote sensing ability-it has garnered a vast amount of attention in recent decades. It uses the physical characteristics of light as it passes through an optical fiber to detect changes in temperature, pressure, strain, and other environmental factors. Optical sensing domains are continuously evolving as a result of the growing need for high-performance measurement. Fiber optic sensors' adaptability in terms of both configuration and functionality makes them perfect fit for a variety of applications, including food processing, aerospace, environmental monitoring, medical diagnostics, industrial process control, homeland security, military defense, high energy physics experiments, and structural health monitoring.
This Special Issue will have a dedicated focus on the recent advancements, emerging trends and future prospective aspects in photonics and optical sensing covering theory, design and fabrication, modelling, and application etc. We encourage you to submit theoretical and experimental submissions of original articles, letters, and reviews to provide a useful insight into the current status and trends, and future aspects in this area. We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Topics of interest include both research and reviews but are not limited to:
- Fiber optic sensors (Physical, chemical, biological)
- Fiber interferometric sensors
- Sensors based on resonance, plasmonics, surface enhanced phenomena
- Distributed fiber sensing
- Integrated photonics sensors
- Microfluidics
- Fiber Grating sensors
- Application of AI/ML in optical sensing
Dr. Anubhav Srivastava
Prof. Dr. Agostino Iadicicco
Prof. Dr. Stefania Campopiano
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- fiber optic sensor
- fiber biosensor
- fiber gratings
- integrated photonics
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