Progress in Fiber Optic Sensors: Design and Applications
A special issue of Photonics (ISSN 2304-6732). This special issue belongs to the section "Lasers, Light Sources and Sensors".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 May 2025 | Viewed by 1271
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The rapid developments in optical fiber manufacturing, fiber optic device fabrication, new functional materials, and related new technologies have renewed fiber optic sensor technology, including principles, design, and applications. Historically, the advent of the ultraviolet laser brought fiber Bragg grating technology into the mature application market. Similarly, the emergence of photonic crystal fiber technology, the introduction of micro/nano processing technology, and especially femtosecond laser processing technology have opened new ways for the development of fiber sensing to meet the challenges of scientific research and industrial applications. In recent years, optical sensing technology has made significant progress. In addition to traditional fiber gratings and fiber optic interferometric cavity sensors, new distributed sensing techniques have emerged as promising areas of research and application. The advancement of new technologies, such as quantum sensing technology and the development of new functional materials, has prompted the integration of quantum sensing and new material technologies into fiber optic sensing to improve sensitivity and ease of use, thereby meeting the requirements of emerging scientific research and industrial applications.
This Special Issue aims at presenting an overview of the progress of the fiber optic sensors, their design, and their applications. We welcome broad, visionary contributions of short research reports as well as a collection of reviews of accomplishments. We are excited to invite researchers to submit their contributions to this Special Issue. Topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Fiber optic sensor designs;
- Fiber optic sensor fabrication technology;
- Fiber optic sensor applications;
- Fiber optic quantum sensors;
- Diamond nitrogen-vacancy and optical fiber integrated quantum sensors;
- Fiber optic biosensors;
- Fiber optic chemical sensors;
- Fiber optic distribution sensors;
- Fiber optical devices;
- Fiber optical microscope;
- Optical tweezers.
Dr. Dewen Duan
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- fiber optic sensors
- fiber optic devices
- fiber optic sensing (FOS) technology
- FOS advances
- sensors
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