Advances in Polymer Optical Fiber Sensors: Materials, Designs and Applications
A special issue of Photonics (ISSN 2304-6732).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 10 October 2024 | Viewed by 94
Special Issue Editor
Interests: fiber Bragg gratings; tilted fiber Bragg gratings; polymer optical fibers; SPR; femtosecond laser; fiber sensors; surface plasmon resonance; biosensors
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In recent years, polymer optical fibers (POFs) have gained significant attention due to their large sensitivity to external environments, biocompatibility, and easy handling, among other advantages. Their specific properties make them suitable for a wide range of sensing applications, such as environmental monitoring, biomedical sensing, and structural health monitoring. The use of polymers as fiber materials allows for cost-effective manufacturing and customization to meet specific sensing requirements. The purpose of this Special Issue is to present advances in fundamental research, development of technologies, as well as innovative sensing applications of POFs.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, theoretical and experimental original work on the following:
- POF fabrication with new materials or structures;
- Manufacturing of sensor devices;
- Intensity-based sensors;
- Phase-shift-based sensors;
- Grating-based sensors;
- Interference-based sensors;
- Optical time-domain reflectometry sensors:
- Surface Plasmon resonance sensors:
- Chemical and biological sensors;
- Vital signs monitoring;
- Structural health monitoring;
- Environmental monitoring;
- Sensor networking and distributed sensing.
Dr. Xuehao Hu
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- polymer
- polymer optical fibers
- fiber sensors
- surface Plasmon resonance
- gratings
- optical time-domain reflectometry
