Optical Fibers and Sensing

Dear Colleagues,

Optical fiber sensing has become an important national information infrastructure, laying the foundation for the development of smart cities, and supporting the development of strategic emerging industries such as the Internet of Things, cloud computing, and big data. This is creating a demand for custom designed optical fiber sensors and sensing systems. Researchers both in academia and industry continue to explore and develop new optical fiber sensing technologies, aiming to continuously improve optical fiber sensing technologies and break through application fields.

This Special Issue aims to highlight a wide range of optical fiber sensing technologies and well as their applications, including but not limited to:

• specialty optical fibers, devices designed and fabricated for sensing applications;
• distributed or discrete optical fiber sensing network architectures and interrogation technology;
• optical fiber sensing application in industrial, mechanical, oil and gas, environmental, biological, medical or defense;
• fiber sensing data processing based on machine learning or artificial intelligence.

We hope to present the latest advances and future directions in optics fiber sensing through this Special Issue and facilitate communication between various universities and research teams at the same time.

Dr. Fabio Mangini
Prof. Dr. Jianzhong Zhang
Dr. Jun Long Lim
Prof. Dr. Ching-Hung Chang
Dr. Qingwen Liu
Guest Editors

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