Nowadays, smart composite materials embed miniaturized sensors for structural health
monitoring (SHM) in order to mitigate the risk of failure due to an overload or to unwanted …

Optical fiber gratings have developed into a mature technology with a wide range of
applications in various areas, including physical sensing for temperature, strain, acoustic …

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 …

During the last decades, both governments and companies have been committed to the
continuous checking of biological parameters, which can prevent extra costs to …

This work presents the development of an innovative plasmonic optical fiber (OF)
immunosensor for the detection of cytokeratin 17 (CK17), a biomarker of interest for lung …

Plasmonic immunosensors are usually made of a noble metal (in the form of a film or
nanoparticles) on which bioreceptors are grafted to sense analytes based on the …

Tilted fiber Bragg grating (TFBG) sensors are widely used in biochemical and
electrochemical sensing due to their high sensitivity to refractive index (RI) of the …

The widespread usage and discharge of fluoroquinolones (FQs) have caused negative
environmental consequences that can threaten human health. The development of …

Short-period fiber Bragg gratings with weakly tilted grating planes generate multiple strong
resonances in transmission. Our experimental results show that the wavelength separation …

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