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Emerging Trends and Applications of Optical Fiber Sensors

A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Optical Sensors".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2021) | Viewed by 3115

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Department of Telecommunications, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, VSB-Technical University of Ostrava, 17. Listopadu 2172/15, 70800 Ostrava, Czech Republic
Interests: fiber bragg sensor; multipoint measurement; distributed sensing; biomedical application; car monitoring; railway monitoring; structural health monitoring
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Dear Colleagues,

Due to the continuing rapid growth in demand for EM immune, electrically passive, and very accurate sensors with very small dimensions, higher and higher demands are placed on the evolving field of the application of sensors based on quartz and polymer fibers in Industry 4.0, Smart Cities, and biomedical engineering.

This Special Issue focuses on emerging trends and applications of fiber optic sensors in the field Industry 4.0 (predictive maintenance, measurement of electrical and magnetic quantities, temperature and vibration sensors, etc.), smart cities (IoT sensors, automobile and rail transport, product pipelines leakages, smart waste management, structural health, fire detection, etc.) and biomedical engineering (magnetic resonance sensors, smart home care, wearable sensors, in vitro and in vivo sensors, etc.).

The Special Issue will focus not only on the following types of fiber optic sensor technologies:

  • Fiber-optic and polymer Bragg gratings.
  • Distributed systems based on Rayleigh, Raman, and Brillouin scattering.
  • Fiber-optic interferometric and polarimetric systems.
  • Intensity sensors.
  • Micro- and nano-structured fiber sensors.
  • New emerging concepts for photonic sensing.

Dr. Marcel Fajkus
Guest Editor

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Pressure Membrane FBG Sensor Realized by 3D Technology
by Marcel Fajkus, Jan Nedoma, Radek Martinek, Michael Fridrich, Emil Bednar, Stanislav Zabka and Petr Zmij
Sensors 2021, 21(15), 5158; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/s21155158 - 30 Jul 2021
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The publication describes the design, production, and practical verification of an alternative pressure sensor suitable for measuring the pressure of gas, based on a combination of fiber-optic technology and 3D printing methods. The created sensor uses FBG (Fiber Bragg Grating) suitably implemented on [...] Read more.
The publication describes the design, production, and practical verification of an alternative pressure sensor suitable for measuring the pressure of gas, based on a combination of fiber-optic technology and 3D printing methods. The created sensor uses FBG (Fiber Bragg Grating) suitably implemented on a movable membrane. The sensor is equipped with a reference FBG to compensate for the effect of ambient temperature on the pressure measurement. The sensor is characterized by its immunity to EM interference, electrical passivity at the measuring point, small size, and resistance to moisture and corrosion. The FBG pressure sensor has a pressure sensitivity of 9.086 pm/mbar in the range from 0 to 9 mbar with a correlation coefficient of 0.9982. The pressure measurement in the specified range shows an average measurement error of 0.049 mbar and a reproducibility parameter of 0.0269 ± 0.0135 mbar. Full article
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