New Trends and Applications of Fiber Bragg and Long-Period Gratings Sensors
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Optical Sensors".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 November 2026 | Viewed by 137
Special Issue Editors
2. School of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering & Automation, Xiamen University Tan Kan Kee College, Xiamen 363105, China
Interests: fiber optic and laser technology; novel optical fibers and devices; fiber optic sensors and systems
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Fiber gratings have evolved from fundamental optical components to core enabling technologies across photonics, sensing, telecommunications, and emerging interdisciplinary fields, driven by breakthroughs in fabrication techniques, material engineering, and structural design. This Special Issue aims to showcase the latest research advances, innovative design concepts, and cutting-edge practical applications of fiber gratings while exploring the critical challenges and future development trends in this dynamic field. We invite original research articles, comprehensive review papers, and short communications that highlight novel progress, cross-disciplinary integration, and industrial translation of fiber grating technologies.
This Special Issue will focus on, but is not limited to, the following topics:
- Advanced fabrication and modification technologies of fiber gratings (e.g., femtosecond laser writing, phase mask optimization, post-processing for enhanced performance, grating fabrication on specialty fibers).
- Novel fiber grating structures (e.g., tilted fiber Bragg gratings (TFBG), long-period fiber gratings (LPFG), chirped fiber gratings (CFG), moiré fiber gratings, photonic crystal fiber gratings, few-mode/multi-core fiber gratings, etc.).
- Fiber grating-based optical communication devices (e.g., dispersion compensators, filters, wavelength division multiplexers, optical amplifiers, mode converters for space-division multiplexing).
- Fiber grating sensors and sensing systems (e.g., temperature, strain, pressure, vibration, refractive index sensors; distributed sensing; multi-parameter sensing; wearable/implantable optical sensors; industrial/environmental monitoring).
- Emerging applications of fiber gratings (e.g., quantum photonics, nonlinear optics, biomedical sensing and imaging, aerospace and marine engineering, smart manufacturing, energy engineering, environmental monitoring, etc.).
- Performance enhancement and engineering optimization of fiber gratings (e.g., high-temperature/high-pressure resistance, corrosion resistance, miniaturization, integration with microelectromechanical components and systems (MEMS).
- Theoretical modeling and simulation of fiber gratings (e.g., coupled-mode theory, finite element analysis, numerical simulation of grating fabrication and optical response).
- Industrial translation and commercialization of fiber grating technologies (e.g., prototype development, field testing, cost optimization, standardization).
Prof. Xiaopeng Dong
Dr. Chenxu Lu
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- fiber Bragg gratings (FBG)
- long-period fiber gratings (LPFG)
- fiber grating sensors for multi-parameters
- special fiber gratings
- structural health monitoring (SHM) with fiber gratings
- fiber grating inscription
- characterization of fiber grating
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