Advances in Fiber Optical Sensing Technology for Harsh Environment Applications

Dear Colleagues,

Efforts are being made in current-sensing technologies that focus on enabling the capability of sensors and improving their performance under harsh environments, such as those with high temperatures, strong radiation, corrosion, and electromagnetic interference. Those environmental conditions make it extremely difficult to implement conventional sensing approaches using electrical sensors for monitoring targeted facilities or devices. Fiber optics sensors, on the other hand, provide huge potential for those applications that benefit from their small-form factor, resilience at high temperatures, resistance to corrosion, and immunity to electromagnetic interference.

This Special Issue is dedicated to the recent developments in fiber optics sensing technologies, focusing on all aspects of the research and development of fiber optics sensors for applications in harsh environments. This Special Issue emphasizes research papers and reviews that focus on fiber optics metrology and new functional material interrogation for harsh environmental applications. I hope that this Special Issue will provide researchers in this field with a platform to publish their recent results as well as offer the research community a comprehensive overview of current progress in the field of optical fiber sensors for harsh environmental applications.

Dr. Rongtao Cao
Prof. Dr. Kevin P. Chen
Guest Editors

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