Enhanced Sensing Performance in Optical Fibers

Dear Colleagues,

Fiber-optic sensors offer several advantages, such as their small size, resistance to electromagnetic interference, and remote and distributed measurement, making them widely applicable in various fields including environmental sensing, structural health monitoring, and biomedical applications. High performance, including sensitivity, resolution, and sampling speed, etc., is consistently sought after in scientific research and engineering applications. The rapid evolution of fiber sensing techniques, fiber manufacturing, optical networks, and data processing has provided an opportunity for collaborative efforts across diverse multidisciplinary fields, including materials, optics, and computer science, to further enhance sensor capabilities.

This Special Issue on “Enhanced Sensing Performance in Optical Fibers” aims to present sensing performance-enhanced fiber-optic sensors in terms of both their fundamental research and field applications. This Special Issue will welcome basic, methodological, and applied cutting-edge research contributions in the form of both regular and review papers. Topics include but are not restricted to:

• Novel mechanisms and technologies in fiber-optic sensing;
• Novel mirco and nanostructured fiber devices for sensing applications;
• High-performance distributed fiber-optic sensors based on Rayleigh, Brillouin, and Raman scattering;
• Fiber Bragg grating-based quasi-distributed sensors, including regular FBG, weak FBG, and random FBG;
• Data-driven artificial intelligence-enabled data processing methods for fiber-optic sensors;
• Optic-electronic detection techniques for fiber-optic sensors;
• Applications of performance-enhanced fiber-optic sensors in optical communication networks (submarine or city fiber networks, etc.).

We look forward to receiving your contributions.

Dr. Yuan Wang
Dr. Zhenshi Sun
Guest Editors

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• fiber-optical sensor
• distributed sensing system
• AI-driven fiber sensors
• novel fiber structure
• FBGs
• optic–electronic detection techniques
• smart city fiber networks