Thanks to the peculiarities of optical fiber and its ability to be combined with
nanotechnology, precise and accurate measurements of the changes in optical properties …

This review covers photonic crystal cavities (PCCs) and their applications in optical sensors,
with a particular focus on the structures of different PCCs. For each kind of optical sensor …

This paper reviews a wide variety of fiber-optic microstructure (FOM) sensors, such as fiber
Bragg grating (FBG) sensors, long-period fiber grating (LPFG) sensors, Fabry-Perot …

Optical fiber biosensors (OFBS) are being increasingly proposed due to their intrinsic
advantages over conventional sensors, including their compactness, potential remote …

Fiber optic devices are being increasingly employed in the fields of chemical and
environmental sensing due to their important features, such as high accuracy, small size …

The review summarizes recent studies on D-shaped optical fibers and their recent
applications in optical sensors. The configurations and working principles of D-shaped …

An ultra high-sensitivity temperature and refractive index (RI) sensor based on surface
plasmon resonance (SPR) effect in D-shape high birefringence photonic crystal fiber (PCF) …

In this paper, a D-shape fiber long period fiber grating (DLPFG) curvature sensor has been
theoretically and experimentally investigated. Different from previous reported long period …

Rapid, accurate, and real-time measurements of ocean salinity are of great importance for a
host of scientific, commercial, and defense applications. We demonstrate a highly sensitive …

We report a highly sensitive, high Q-factor, label free and selective glucose sensor by using
excessively tilted fiber grating (Ex-TFG) inscribed in the thin-cladding optical fiber (TCOF) …