Optical Fiber Sensors: Technologies and Applications
A special issue of Photonics (ISSN 2304-6732).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2023) | Viewed by 314
Special Issue Editor
Interests: optical fiber sensing; optical fiber laser; optical precision measurement; surface optical precision measurement; optical precision instrument
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Optical fiber sensors employ optical fibers as sensing elements or waveguide elements that modulate the measurand in the amplitude, frequency, phase, wavelength, polarization of the light transmitted through the optical fiber and demodulate the measurand from the light to obtain the measurement results, which are capable of measuring displacement, distance, temperature, strain, velocity, vibration ,etc. Optical fiber sensors are multidisciplinary systems that combine optics, electronics and signal processing. Compared to other kinds of measurement systems, optical fiber sensors have the advantages of compactness, their light weight nature, immunity to electromagnetic interference, high resolution and ability to perform remote sensing and distributing sensing. Because of the advantages of optical fiber sensors, they are applied in a wide range of fields, such as electric power, petroleum, chemical, construction, transportation, medical, environmental protection and smart cities.
This Special Issue on “Optical Fiber Sensors: Technologies and Applications” welcomes basic, methodological and applied cutting-edge research contributions, as regular and review papers, that deal with the following topics:
- The development of novel optical fiber sensing mechanisms;
- The development of optical fiber sensing system technologies;
- Optical fiber sensor applications.
Dr. Fang Xie
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- optical fiber gyro
- micro/nanostructured optical fiber sensors
- chemical and biological biosensors
- point-based optical fiber sensors
- distributing sensing systems
- sensor interrogation techniques
- special optical fiber devices
- optical fiber sensors in the petroleum, electric power and other related industries
- optical fiber sensing technology in civil engineering infrastructure monitoring
- optical fiber sensors in smart cities
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