Preface ........................................................ xi
Editors ...................................................... xiii
Contributors ................................................... xv
Chapter 1 Introduction to Optical Fiber Sensors ................ 1
Ginu Rajan
Chapter 2 Optical Fiber Sensing Solutions: From Macro- to
Micro-/Nanoscale .................................... 13
Yuliya Semenova and Gerald Farrell
Chapter 3 Interferometric Fiber-Optic Sensors ................. 37
Sara Tofighi, Abolfazl Bahrampour, Nafiseh
Pishbin, and Ali Reza Bahrampour
Chapter 4 Polymer Optical Fiber Sensors ....................... 79
Kara Peters
Chapter 5 Surface Plasmon Resonance Fiber-Optic Sensors ...... 101
Kent B. Pfeifer and Steven M. Thornberg
Chapter 6 Photonic-Crystal Fibers for Sensing Applications ... 125
Ana M.R. Pifito
Chapter 7 Liquid Crystal Optical Fibers for Sensing
Applications ....................................... 151
Sunish Mathews and Yuliya Semenova
Chapter 8 Optical Microfiber Physical Sensors ................ 181
George Y. Chen and Gilberto Brambilla
Chapter 9 Fiber Bragg Grating Sensors and Interrogation
Systems ............................................ 207
Dipankar Sengupta
Chapter 10 Polymer Fiber Bragg Grating Sensors and Their
Applications ....................................... 257
David J. Webb
Chapter 11 Acousto-Optic Effect and Its Application in
Optical Fibers ..................................... 277
Alexandre de Almeida Prado Pohl
Chapter 12 Distributed Fiber-Optic Sensors and Their
Applications ....................................... 309
Balaji Srinivasan and Deepa Venkitesh
Chapter 13 Fiber Laser-Based Sensing Technologies ............. 359
Asrul ham Azmi, Muhammad Yusof Mohd Noor, Haifeng
Qi, Кun Liu, and Gang-Ding Peng
Chapter 14 Active Core Optical Fiber Chemical Sensors and
Applications ....................................... 397
Shiquan Tao
Chapter 15 Optical Fiber Humidity Sensors ..................... 413
Muhammad Yusof Mohd Noor, Gang-Ding Peng, and Ginu
Rajan
Chapter 16 Medical Applications of Fiber-Optic Sensors ........ 455
Vandana Mishra
Chapter 17 Optical Fiber Sensors for Smart Composite
Materials and Structures ........................... 491
Manjusha Ramakrishnan, Yuliya Semenova, Gerald
Farrell, and Ginu Rajan
Chapter 18 Future Perspectives for Fiber-Optic Sensing ........ 521
Brian Culshaw
Index ......................................................... 545
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