Handbook of Optical Sensors

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Handbook of Optical Sensors offers a comprehensive overview of optical sensors, covering their principles, structures, and applications. It includes discussions on optical metrology, waveguides, fluorescence, plasmonic waves, and advanced imaging techniques like optical coherence tomography. The book also addresses optical fibre sensing technologies and explores future trends such as metamaterials and quantum light states.
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This is an essential resource for practitioners, students, and researchers in optical sensing and related scientific fields seeking a detailed and integrated understanding of optical sensor technology.

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Handbook of Optical Sensors provides a comprehensive and integrated view of optical sensors, addressing the fundamentals, structures, technologies, applications, and future perspectives. Featuring chapters authored by recognised experts and major contributors to the field, this essential reference:

Explains the basic aspects of optical sensors and the principles of optical metrology, presenting a brief historical review.
Explores the role of optical waveguides in sensing and discusses sensor technologies based on intensity and phase modulation, fluorescence, and plasmonic waves.
Describes wavefront sensing, multiphoton microscopy, and imaging based on optical coherence tomography.
Covers optical fibre sensing, from light guiding in standard and microstructured optical fibres to sensor multiplexing, distributed sensing, and fibre Bragg grating.
Offers a broad perspective of the field and identifies trends that could shape the future, such as metamaterials and entangled quantum states of light.

Handbook of Optical Sensors is an ideal resource for practitioners and those seeking optical solutions for their specific needs, as well as for students and investigators who are the intellectual driving force of optical sensing.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781138198661

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 26 February 2018

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: CRC Press

Illustration: 25 Tables, black and white; 8 Illustrations, color; 296 Illustrations, black and white

Contributors:

Edited by Jose Luis Santos
Edited by Faramarz Farahi

Audience: Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Width: 178.0mm

Height: 254.0mm

Weight: 1330g

Pages: 718

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About the Author

José Luís Santos earned his licenciatura in physics and Ph.D from the University of Porto, Portugal, benefiting from a collaboration with the University of Kent at Canterbury, UK. He is currently a professor of physics in the Physics and Astronomy Department of the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Porto. He is also a researcher with the INESC TEC-Centre for Applied Photonics (formerly INESC Porto—Optoelectronics and Electronic Systems Unit). His main area of research is optical fiber sensing, with a focus on interferometric- and wavelength-encoded devices. He has authored/coauthored over 200 scientific articles and coauthored 5 patents.

Faramarz Farahi earned his BS from Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran; MS from Southampton University, UK; and Ph.D from the University of Kent at Canterbury, UK. He is currently a professor at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA, where he is a member of the Center for Optoelectronics and Optical Communications and the Center for Precision Metrology, and has been the chair of the Department of Physics and Optical Science. Dr. Farahi has over 25 years of experience in the field of optical fiber sensors and devices, has authored/coauthored over 200 scientific articles and texts, and holds 10 patents.