Advanced Optical Fiber Sensors for Harsh Environment Applications
A special issue of Photonics (ISSN 2304-6732).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 August 2025 | Viewed by 995
Special Issue Editors
Interests: fiber optics; sensors and instrumentation; additive manufacturing
Interests: development of fiber-optic and microwave devices for sensing applications in harsh environments
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Dear Colleagues,
Optical fiber sensors have been widely researched and developed for energy, defense, environmental, biochemical and industry sensing applications. In general, optical fiber sensors are capable of operating under extreme environmental conditions, such as high temperature, high pressure and toxic/corrosive/erosive atmospheres. However, optical fiber sensors are also fragile and easy to break. It has been a challenging task to fabricate and package optical fiber sensors with a predictable performance and the desired reliability under harsh conditions.
This Special Issue invites manuscripts that introduce recent advances in “Advanced Optical Fiber Sensors for Harsh Environment Applications”. All theoretical, numerical, and experimental papers are welcome. Topics can include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Structural health monitoring;
- Advanced fiber-optic sensor manufacturing techniques;
- AI for fiber-optic sensing applications;
- Advanced fiber-optic sensors for high-temperature applications;
- Advanced fiber-optic sensors for environmental monitoring;
- Sensing materials for fiber-optic sensing applications;
- Fiber-optic chemical sensors;
- Multi-parameter fiber-optic sensors;
- Dynamic and static fiber-optic sensors.
Dr. Qi Zhang
Dr. Chen Zhu
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- fiber-optic sensor
- fiber-optic sensing technology
- advanced manufacturing technique
- structural health monitoring
- single-point sensing
- ai for optical fiber sensing
- distributed sensing
- environmental monitoring
- harsh environment sensing technique
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