Advances in Optical Sensors and Applications
A special issue of Photonics (ISSN 2304-6732).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 November 2025 | Viewed by 163
Special Issue Editors
Interests: optical sensors; optoelectronics; optics; photonics; lasers; fabrication and characterization of thin films and optical devices; semiconductors; materials science and engineering
Interests: optical fibers; fiber lasers; fiber tapers; nonlinear optics; microresonators
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Optical sensors have been developed and used for an increasingly large number of applications, as they allow non-invasive measurements and they can be more robust, smaller, lighter, faster, more accurate, and more sensitive than other sensing technologies. New ideas are continuously being proposed, developed and tested. The goal of this Special Issue is to offer an overview of recent developments in optical sensing, exploring innovative designs, components, materials, and techniques that enhance sensitivity, accuracy, and reliability across diverse applications, including, but not limited to: environmental monitoring, agrifood, healthcare, industrial automation, inertial navigation, automotive, aerospace, marine and maritime, etc. With this objective, original research papers, as well as review articles, will be published to show the diversity of the new developments in these areas and their wide dissemination in these fields. If you require clarifications or wish to discuss your submission in advance, please do not hesitate to contact us. We look forward to and welcome your participation in this Special Issue.
Dr. Alberto Sposito
Dr. Natasha Vukovic
Dr. Alexander May
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- biosensors
- fibre optics
- fluorescence
- gyroscope
- integrated optics
- luminescence
- pressure sensing
- spectroscopy
- temperature sensing
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