Pervasive Fiber Optic Sensor Technology: Improvements and Applications

Dear Colleagues,

In the field of monitoring systems, in the most diverse applications for chemical-physical quantities, fiber optic sensor systems have gained more and more space over the years.

Over the past decade, fiber optic sensor systems have gained increasing reliability and widespread use for a wide variety of applications.

It is known that the intrinsic characteristics of the optical fiber, such as the small size, the immunity to electromagnetic radiation, the robustness in difficult environments, the multiplexing ability, etc., make the optical fiber sensors unique compared to other monitoring technologies.

The diffusion and opportunities for scientific diffusion of topics related to the development and use of this class of sensors have increased in number in the recent past. So, we may ask ourselves why do we still feel the need to have a new collection of works dealing with fiber optic sensors?

The answer is that even if the field is mature and well defined, there is room to describe new types of sensors and new examples of uses of these sensors in particular fields of application.

The objective of this special issue is to cover broad aspects of the various monitoring solutions based on fiber optic technology, emphasizing, from an engineering and integration point of view with other non-homogeneous monitoring systems, the use in different and possibly new areas of application. 

You are therefore invited to submit the original research document, in the form of communications or complete articles, including the most recent and original advances regarding the current state of the art in optical fiber detection. 

Prof. Giovanni Breglio
Dr. Francesco Fienga
Dr. Vincenzo Romano Marrazzo
Guest Editors

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