Recent Trends in Fiber Optic Sensor: Technology and Applications

A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Optics and Lasers".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 September 2024 | Viewed by 548

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TecNM/IT Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Carretera Panamericana Km. 1080, Tuxtla Gutiérrez CP 29050, Chiapas, Mexico
Interests: fiber optic sensor; optical metrology; optoelectronics; photonics; optical materials

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Optomechatronics Group, Tecnológico Nacional de México Campus Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Carretera Panamericana Km 1080, Tuxtla Gutiérrez 29050, Mexico
Interests: fiber optic sensor; optical metrology; fiber-optic interferometric; optoelectronics; fiber lasers

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Departamento de Ingeniería Química y Bioquímica, Tecnológico Nacional de México/IT Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Carretera Panamericana Km 1080, Tuxtla Gutiérrez 29050, Mexico
Interests: photochemistry; spectroscopy; organic chemical; sensitive optical material

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Presently, remote monitoring systems are vital for the tracking of variations of specific parameters, whether physical, chemical, or biological. These remote systems must be reliable in data acquisition, and fiber optic sensors offer high reliability, better sensitivity, a wide dynamic range, and versatile applications across all engineering fields. Following this, we invite you to contribute manuscripts to this Special Issue, sharing essential results from your research on optical fiber sensors applied to various areas of engineering. Full papers, communications, and reviews are welcome.

This Special Issue aims to highlight the progress made regarding fiber optic sensors by investigating new configurations and methods for measuring parameters that need continuous monitoring across various engineering disciplines.

All manuscripts of fiber optic sensors with novel measurement methods that use intensity, phase, polarization, wavelength changes, and time domain reflectometry are welcome. In addition, we welcome research in areas of civil engineering (structure health monitoring), chemistry, physics, environment, biology, medicine, marine sciences, aeronautics, mechanics, electricity, industry, and so on.

The Special Issue will focus on the following fiber optic sensor topics:

  • Chromic Materials for intrinsic fiber sensor: thermochromic, gasochromic, electrochromic, ionochormic, photochromic, solvatochromic, vapochromic, mechanochromic, and so on;
  • Sensors based on colorimetry, evanescent waves, and infrared spectroscopies;
  • Plasmonic-based sensors;
  • Interferometers and polarimetric configurations;
  • Fiber Bragg gratings;
  • Distributed systems based on Rayleigh, Raman, and Brillouin scattering;
  • Intensity sensors;
  • Structured fiber sensors;
  • Fiber laser sensors;
  • Vernier effect.

Prof. Dr. Jorge Luis Camas-Anzueto
Prof. Dr. Rubén Grajales Coutiño
Dr. Rocío Meza-Gordillo
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Keywords

  • chromic material for sensing
  • optical fiber sensors
  • physical and chemical sensors
  • biological sensors
  • interferometric sensors
  • resonance-based sensors
  • fiber gratings sensors
  • colorimetric sensors
  • fluorescence
  • microstructured fibers
  • nanostructured coatings
  • fiber laser sensor
  • vernier effect

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Region-Selective Corrosion for the Fabrication of Tilted Microfiber Bragg Gratings: A Candidate for the Monitoring of Buildings’ Health
by Yufei Que and Jin Li
Appl. Sci. 2024, 14(11), 4707; https://doi.org/10.3390/app14114707 - 30 May 2024
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Optical fiber gratings can be appropriately packaged and integrated for the real-time monitoring of the structural health of buildings or composite-material films. In this work, a tilted fiber Bragg grating at the micron scale was proposed, designed, and optimized via simulation model analysis [...] Read more.
Optical fiber gratings can be appropriately packaged and integrated for the real-time monitoring of the structural health of buildings or composite-material films. In this work, a tilted fiber Bragg grating at the micron scale was proposed, designed, and optimized via simulation model analysis using OptiFDTD software. The effects of the grating inclination, grating period, and grating length on the transmission spectrum of the tilted microfiber Bragg grating (TMFBG) were studied. The transmission spectrum’s responses to different refractive indices were simulated and compared. A TFBG was uniformly etched with hydrofluoric acid based on the chemical etching method, and several TMFBGs with different diameters were prepared. The refractive index-sensing characteristics of the TMFBGs with different structures were studied. It was found that the sensitivity of the etched TFBG was greatly improved from 0.964 nm/RIU to 6.368 nm/RIU for the higher-order cladding mode, and from 0.294 nm/RIU to 2.353 nm/RIU for the lower-order cladding mode, being approximately six times and eight times higher, respectively. Full article
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