This review presents an overview of “Lab on Fiber” technologies and devices with special
focus on the design and development of advanced fiber optic nanoprobes for biological …

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 …

Fiber optic label-free biosensors are currently experiencing wide diffusion, as they combine
the performance of optical measurements with the advantages of optical fiber. This paper …

The integration of metasurfaces on the tip of optical fibers enables advanced wavefront
manipulations in Lab‐on‐Fiber application scenarios, and brings about new degrees of …

Increased level of CD44 protein in serum is observed in several cancers and is associated
with tumor burden and metastasis. Current clinically used detection methods of this protein …

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

Enzymes are one of the most studied biorecognition elements for biosensing applications.
Enzymes are known to offer a distinctive advantage of catalytic biorecognition with …

In this work, we report about an ultrasensitive fiber optic biosensor realized using a single-
ended Long Period Grating (LPG). The LPG working point is tuned in the highest sensitivity …

A biosensor based on an etched Fiber Bragg Grating (EFBG) for thrombin detection is
reported. The sensing system is based on a Fiber Bragg Grating (FBG) with a Bragg …

Detection of biomarkers for tracking disease progression is becoming increasingly important
in biomedicine. Using saliva as a diagnostic sample appears to be a safe, cost-effective, and …