New Trends in Optical Sensing Techniques
A special issue of Photonics (ISSN 2304-6732). This special issue belongs to the section "Lasers, Light Sources and Sensors".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 October 2026 | Viewed by 26
Special Issue Editors
Interests: interferometry; optical sensors; optoelectronics; fabry-perot interferometer; fiber laser sensors; artificial intelligence; optical materials
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Interests: optical sensors; interferometry; fiber lasers; machine learning and artificial intelligence on sensor data
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Optical sensing has been evolving rapidly in last decades, allowing us to measure with high precision different variables such as refractive index, gas concentration, temperature, curvature and torsion. Based on this, complex control and automation systems are implemented for practically all types of industry, from manufacturing to medical. In general, it is necessary to consider the physics of the materials, light sources and detectors, the interaction of matter with light for the design, simulation and implementation of an optical sensing system. Moreover, it is compulsory to consider aspects related to the signal acquisition and processing system that will be used to recover the sensor signal and to provide the overall output. In all these fields recently, new techniques are emerging to enhance optical sensing systems' performance, such as artificial intelligence. Therefore, this Special Issue is intended for the presentation of new techniques for modeling, designing, fabricating and implementing optical sensing systems and their applications.
Topics include, but are not limited to, the following domains:
- All-fiber sensors.
- Laser-based sensors.
- Sensors based on interferometric systems.
- Biosensors.
- Optical chemical sensors.
- Application of machine learning algorithms in optical sensing systems.
- Artificial intelligence on sensor data.
- Multiparametric optical sensing systems.
- Optical sensing for special applications.
Prof. Dr. Everardo Vargas-Rodriguez
Prof. Dr. Ana Dinora Guzman-Chavez
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- optical sensors
- interferometry
- fiber sensors
- biosensors
- laser sensing systems
- optical materials
- artificial intelligence
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