Optical Sensors for Industrial Applications
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Optical Sensors".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 May 2025 | Viewed by 32
Special Issue Editor
Interests: photonic sensors; sensor networks; interrogation techniques; distributed sensing; remote monitoring; photonic instrumentation for industrial applications
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Over the past few decades, optical sensors have been effectively used in various industrial applications in the electrical power, oil and gas, nuclear engineering, and civil engineering sectors, among others. They have proven to be valuable tools in physical, chemical, and biomedical applications, offering several advantages over their traditional equivalents, such as a light weight, a small size, a wide bandwidth, a high accuracy, electromagnetic interference immunity, galvanic isolation, and multiplexibility. Many optical sensing technologies have advanced to meet industry standards, offering a direct replacement for their conventional counterparts, providing passive measurements over long distances and improving measurement quality, thus overcoming the current technological limitations to ensure safety, reliability, and data security. They have been successfully applied in harsh environments where their traditional equivalents are not suitable due to operational constraints.
This Special Issue aims to present the latest research advances in the field of optical sensors, distributed sensing, and sensor networks and their applications across various industry sectors. It will also focus on new sensor designs, fabrication methods, sensing techniques, and system architectures to achieve improved measurement accuracy, resolution, and unique functionalities. Authors are invited to submit both review and original research articles describing recent advances in optical sensors across a broad range of industrial applications.
The topics of interests include but are not limited to the following:
- Polarimetric, interferometric, and intensity sensors;
- Fiber Bragg grating sensors;
- Novel concepts of photonic sensing;
- Design and development of novel optical sensors;
- Sensor fabrication and packaging;
- Sensor interrogation and multiplexing techniques;
- Sensor networks;
- Sensor characterization, calibration and performance evaluation;
- Remote and distributed sensing;
- Harsh-environment sensing;
- Optical sensors for industrial applications.
Dr. Grzegorz Fusiek
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- polarimetric, interferometric, and intensity sensors
- fiber bragg grating sensors
- novel concepts of photonic sensing
- design and development of novel optical sensors
- sensor fabrication and packaging
- sensor interrogation and multiplexing techniques
- sensor networks
- sensor characterization, calibration and performance evaluation
- remote and distributed sensing
- harsh-environment sensing
