Fiber Bragg grating has embraced the area of fiber optics since the early days of its
discovery, and most fiber optic sensor systems today make use of fiber Bragg grating …

Advances in medicine and improvements in life quality has led to an increase in the life
expectancy of the general population. An ageing world population have placed demands on …

Interest in polymer optical fiber Bragg gratings (POFBGs) arises from the different material
properties and sensing modalities brought by polymers relative to silica. Polymer fibers …

The paper presents a substantial review on the different kinds of strain sensors that have
been employed as wearable sensing prototypes. The importance of strain sensors lies in …

Flexible sensors have the potential to be seamlessly applied to soft and irregularly shaped
surfaces such as the human skin or textile fabrics. This benefits conformability dependant …

The monitoring of human physiological signs and body functions, such as respiration rate,
heart rate, foot pressure, and joint movement, plays an important role in medical advances …

In the quest of finding the ideal polymer optical fiber (POF) for Bragg grating sensing, we
have fabricated and characterized an endlessly single mode microstructured POF (mPOF) …

Aging degradation and seismic damage of civil infrastructures have become a serious issue
for society, and one promising technology for monitoring their conditions is optical fiber …

This paper presents a review of FSS technology. The operation principle and main
characteristics of specklegram are presented and the applications of FSSs are thoroughly …

We report the fabrication and characterization of a polycarbonate (PC) microstructured
polymer optical fiber (mPOF) Bragg grating (FBG) humidity sensor that can operate beyond …