Roadmap on optical sensors
Abstract
Optical sensors and sensing technologies are playing a more and more important role in our modern world. From micro-probes to large devices used in such diverse areas like medical diagnosis, defence, monitoring of industrial and environmental conditions, optics can be used in a variety of ways to achieve compact, low cost, stand-off sensing with extreme sensitivity and selectivity. Actually, the challenges to the design and functioning of an optical sensor for a particular application requires intimate knowledge of the optical, material, and environmental properties that can affect its performance. This roadmap on optical sensors addresses different technologies and application areas. It is constituted by twelve contributions authored by world-leading experts, providing insight into the current state-of-the-art and the challenges their respective fields face. Two articles address the area of optical fibre sensors, encompassing both conventional and specialty optical fibres. Several other articles are dedicated to laser-based sensors, micro- and nano-engineered sensors, whispering-gallery mode and plasmonic sensors. The use of optical sensors in chemical, biological and biomedical areas is discussed in some other papers. Different approaches required to satisfy applications at visible, infrared and THz spectral regions are also discussed.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Pub Defense Publication
- Publication Date
- Dec 18, 2023
- Source ID
- 10.1088/2040-8986/ad0e85
Entities
People
- Alexis Méndez
- Arturo I Hernandez-serrano
- Björn M Reinhard
- Callum Jones
- David J. Ottaway
- Elodie Strupiechonski
- Enrique Castro-Camus
- Francisco J. González
- Frank Vollmer
- Gilberto Brambilla
- Goretti G. Hernandez-Cardoso
- Lei Zhang
- Luc Thévenaz
- Max Diem
- Misha Sumetsky
- Mário F S Ferreira
- Ori Henderson-Sapir
- Paola Saccomandi
- Peter D. Dragic
- Qimin Quan
- Srikanth Pedireddy
- Xian Feng
- Zhongcong Xie
Organizations
- Air Force Office of Scientific Research
- Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
- Australian Research Council
- Consejo Nacional de Humanidades, Ciencias y Tecnologías
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
- Leverhulme Trust
- National Institutes of Health
- National Natural Science Foundation of China
- Natural Environment Research Council
- Royal Society
- United States Department of Defense
- Wolfson Foundation