The ability to integrate complex electronic and optoelectronic functionalities within soft and
thin fibers is one of today's key advanced manufacturing challenges. Multifunctional and …

The flat endface of an optical fiber tip is an emerging light-coupled microscopic platform that
combines fiber optics with planar micro-and nanotechnologies. Since different materials and …

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 …

The integration of microfluidics and photonic biosensors has allowed achievement of
several laboratory functions in a single chip, leading to the development of photonic lab-on …

The field of hybrid optical fibers is one of the most active research areas in current fiber
optics and has the vision of integrating sophisticated materials inside fibers, which are not …

A miniaturized, localized surface plasmon resonance (LSPR)-coupled fiber-optic (FO)
nanoprobe is reported as a biosensor that is capable of label-free, sensitive detection of a …

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 …

This review presents an overview of the “lab-on-fiber technology” vision and the main
milestones set in the technological roadmap to achieve the ultimate objective of developing …

Optical fiber technology has significantly bolstered the growth of photonics applications in
basic life sciences research and in biomedical diagnosis, therapy, monitoring, and surgery …

Femtosecond lasers have revolutionized the processing of materials, since their ultrashort
pulse width and extremely high peak intensity allows high-quality micro-and nanofabrication …