Refractive Index Fibre and Integrated Optic Sensors
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 March 2020) | Viewed by 16222
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2. Centre de Recherche en Photonique, Université du Québec en Outaouais, 101 rue Saint-Jean-Bosco, Gatineau, QC J8X 3X7, Canada
Interests: polarization matrix methods; optical fibers; fiber optic sensors and components; sensor interrogation instrumentation and fluorescence studies
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Dear Colleagues,
The development of a variety of optical waveguide microstructures that are highly sensitive to surrounding refractive index changes has opened the way for the development of a variety of refractometric sensors for a plethora of applications in biochemical sensing, vapor, humidity, and moisture ingress sensing.
Among the refractive index sensing structures of interest are fiber gratings, more specifically, regular long period gratings (LPGs) and double resonance LPGs (DR-LPGs) around turning point, tilted fiber Bragg gratings (TFBGs), evanescent wave and tapered fiber structures, fiberized plasmonic sensors, fiber microcavity Mach–Zehnder interferometers, integrated optic gratings and interferometers, photonic crystal fibers (PCF), and other specialty microstructures.
The drive to develop practical, lower cost, and higher sensitivity devices poses a number of problems and challenges to be overcome. The reliability and repeatability of a sensor's parameters and performance, temperature compensation or insensitivity, and issues of packaging and manufacturability are all of key importance for a practical product. Also of interest are the performance of interrogation techniques, multiplexing techniques that would allow simultaneous or quasi-simultaneous measurement of a number of parameters, and the construction of sensing networks that will lead to a reduction in the price per sensor.
The objective of this Special Issue is to cover the following topics:
- Novel types and developments of sensing structures allowing refractive index measurements in micro-, nano-, and picoliter volumes;
- Fabrication technologies for waveguide- and microoptic-based refractometers;
- Multiplexing and interrogation techniques for sensing devices and networks;
- Multiparameter and multianalyte measurement techniques with applications in biochemical, gas, vapor, and humidity sensing;
- Optical waveguide-compatible microfluidic refractometers.
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Keywords
- refractive index fiber optic sensors
- evanescent field and tapered optical fiber refractive index sensors
- plasmonic fiber-based sensors
- long period grating (LPG) and tilted FBG fiber refractometric sensors
- fiber optic microinterferometric sensors
- novel fiber/integrated optic refractometric sensors
- microfluidic and whispering gallery mode (WGM) sensors
- refractive index sensing using fiber microstructured and specialty fiber refractometers
- micro-, nano-, and picoliter volume refractometry
- fiber refractometry for biochemical and medical applications
- moisture ingress, humidity, and vapor sensing
- fabrication of fiber refractometric sensors
- multiplexing and interrogation of fiber refractometers
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