Abstract Fiber Bragg Gratings or FBGs have achieved significant attention towards sensing
and communication applications due to their outstanding advantages. Due to its high …

An optical fiber sensor based on a fiber surface waveguide and Bragg grating is proposed
for a simultaneous refractive index (RI) and temperature sensing. The device consists of two …

Shape sensing is of importance for the manipulation of flexible needles. In this work, a 0.6
mm diameter stylet with five Fiber Bragg Gratings (FBGs) installed as triplets was designed …

We present a novel strain sensor based on a hybrid Fabry–Perot interferometer (HFPI),
which is mainly constructed by a cascade of a suspended-core fiber (SCF) and a hollow …

A pressure sensor specified for aerodynamic applications and based on optical fibre strain
sensors mounted on a circular glass fibre reinforced polymer membrane is presented. The …

We present the optimization of a 2.1-µm continuous wave monolithic single-oscillator laser
by adapting the Fiber Bragg Grating (FBG) reflected wavelength to the maximum gain …

In this work, a simulation study proposing a novel method for dual-sensing using surface
plasmon resonance (SPR) optical fiber sensors and singlemode-multimode-singlemode …

The FBG-based embedded optical fiber 3-D shape sensor (FBG-EOFSS) composed of
several different materials finds potential applications in various industrial and medical …

A novel refractive index sensor based on etched multicore fiber Bragg gratings with
temperature in-line compensation is proposed and experimentally demonstrated. By …

In this paper, we propose a novel approach to characterise barely visible transverse matrix
cracks in composite structures using fibre Bragg grating (FBG) optical sensors. Matrix cracks …