Optical Fiber Bend Sensors
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Optical Sensors".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 July 2023) | Viewed by 479
Special Issue Editors
Interests: optical fiber biochemical sensors; photonic crystal sensors; VOC sensors; point-of-care sensor; intelligent fiber sensor
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Interests: optical fiber sensors; fiber Bragg grating; laser micromachining
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Fiber-optic bending sensors have attracted growing attention due to the advantages of compact size, high sensitivity, fast response, and immunity to external electromagnetic fields, which have been exploited in the fields of composite material structures, structural monitoring, accelerometers, displacement measurement, robot arms and artificial limbs. Recent progress focuses on directional or vector bending sensors, especially multi-direction and 3D vector bending sensors such as fiber Bragg gratings built in multicore fibers. Moreover, 3D shape sensing based on the understanding of the fiber bending curvature and direction has also been drawing increasing attention. This Special Issue seeks to bring attention to the most recent results in the field of fiber bend sensors, including new sensing mechanisms, processes, and applications.
Potential topics include but are not limited to:
- Vector bend sensors;
- Multi-direction bending sensors;
- Curvature sensors;
- Multicore fiber bend sensors;
- Machine learning in fiber bend sensing;
- Shape sensors;
- Distributed shape sensing.
Prof. Dr. Yanan Zhang
Dr. Shuhui Liu
Dr. Yu Zheng
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- vector bend sensors
- multi-direction bending sensors
- curvature sensors
- multicore fiber bend sensors
- machine learning in fiber bend sensing
- shape sensors
- distributed shape sensing
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