Bragg Grating Arrays for Sensing Applications
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Optical Sensors".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2020) | Viewed by 8078
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Interests: optical sensors; optical fiber sensors; optical transmission systems; medical applications of photonics; fiber lasers; sensor signal processing
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Dear Colleagues,
Bragg grating based optical sensors have attracted much interest, since they show enormous potential for applications in various fields. Thus, enormous effort has been put into the research and development of Bragg gratings. Especially, the fact that these sensors can be arranged as an array offers the opportunity to build multipoint sensor systems with high spacial resolution and sensitivity. The Special Issue on “Bragg Grating Arrays for Sensing Applications” addresses all research topics in the field, covering fiber gratings, planar gratings; polymer waveguide or silica glass-based structures; and the fabrication of arrays by phase mask, interferometric concepts, or direct writing setups. Draw tower fiber Bragg gratings are significant devices in this context too. Modern sensor systems always rely onthe suitable detection and signal processing of sensor signals. Multiplexed sensors require special read-out technologies and system concepts like wavelength division multiplexing, optical time, or frequency domain multiplexing. Numerous signal processing ideas have also been developed, like model-based compressed sensing or using machine learning algorithms. Finally, applications like structural health monitoring, environmental sensing, and industrial monitoring are of high interest.
Thus, I encourage all colleagues working in this field to submit their latest research results to this Special Issue on “Bragg Grating Arrays for Sensing Applications”.
Prof. Dr. Bernhard Schmauss
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Bragg grating arrays
- Bragg grating fabrication
- sensor multiplexing
- sensor signal processing
- distributed sensing
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