Special Issue "Recent Advances in Micro- and Nanofiber-Optic Sensors"
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Optical Sensors".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 January 2024 | Viewed by 556
Special Issue Editors
Interests: optical fiber sensors; fiber interferometer sensors; microfiber and special fiber-based sensor fabrication and application; optical-fiber-based gas sensors and biochemical sensors; laser fabrication techniques; fiber endoscope
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Interests: optical fiber interferometers for novel fiber optical couplers and sensors; nanofiber; microsphere sensors for bio-chemical sensing; the design and fabrication of fiber bragg grating devices and their applications for sensing; nonlinear fibre optics; surface plasmon resonant and surface acoustic wave sensors
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Interests: fiber-optic sensors; nonlinear fiber optics; optical soliton
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Micro-/nanofibers (MNFs) with significantly reduced fiber diameters are very popular in the development of miniaturized fiber-optic sensors with high sensitivity and fast response times. MNFs offer a large portion of the evanescent field and high-intensity surface fields, and the enhancement of the light–matter interaction makes them highly sensitive to refractive index change in the surrounding medium. We propose the use of micro-/nanoprocessing technologies in the fabrication of MNFs. Examples of such techniques include adiabatic taper, chemical etching and femtosecond laser processing.
A number of optical ring resonators, microfiber couplers, grating sensors, WGM sensors, and surface plasmon resonance (SPR) sensors based on MNFs have been proposed and extensively investigated. Further functionalization of the MNFs sensor structures with additional coating materials (nanomaterials, 2D materials) could significantly improve its sensing properties, allowing us to achieve high sensitivity and selectivity detection for the desired targets. MNF sensors have become among the most promising fiber-optic sensors and have wide applications in physical and bio-chemical applications, such as taking measurements of temperature, strain, vibration, relative humidity, and gas/liquid concentrations, and detecting biomolecules. The purpose of this Special Issue is to publish papers that reflect the most recent advancements in MNFs sensors. Scholars should submit fundamental research, innovative applications and review articles. Topics include, but are not limited to:
- MNFs interferometer sensors;
- MNFs resonators;
- MNFs SPR sensors;
- MNFs fabrication technology;
- Coating materials functionalized of MNFs for sensing applications;
- Microstructure optical fiber-based sensor devices/systems
- Lab-on-fiber sensor devices/systems;
- Emerging MNFs sensing device design and applications;
- MNFs sensors in physical, biochemical, biomedical applications etc.
Dr. Dejun Liu
Dr. Qiang Wu
Dr. Ke Tian
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- optical fiber sensors
- micro-/nanofibers
- microstructure optical fibers
- SPR sensors
- biochemical sensors
- gas sensors
