Guest Editorial Guided Lightwaves for Sensors and Measurement Systems: Advanced Techniques and Applications

Gaozhi (George) Xiao, Tuan Guo, Luigi Rovati, and Zuyuan He

J. Lightwave Technol. 37(11), 2485-2487 (2019)  View: PDF

Multi-Dimensional Optical Fiber Sensing Enabled by Digital Coherent Optical Technologies

Jingshun Pan, Ji Zhou, Xingwen Yi, Qi Sui, Chao Lu, and Zhaohui Li

J. Lightwave Technol. 37(11), 2488-2501 (2019)  View: PDF

FBG for Oil and Gas Exploration

Qiangzhou Rong and Xueguang Qiao

J. Lightwave Technol. 37(11), 2502-2515 (2019)  View: PDF

Recent Progress in Liquid-Crystal Optical Fibers and Their Applications in Photonics

Sławomir Ertman, Katarzyna Rutkowska, and Tomasz R. Woliński

J. Lightwave Technol. 37(11), 2516-2526 (2019)  View: PDF

High-Sensitivity Instantaneous Microwave Frequency Measurement Based on a Silicon Photonic Integrated Fano Resonator

Beibei Zhu, Weifeng Zhang, Shilong Pan, and Jianping Yao

J. Lightwave Technol. 37(11), 2527-2533 (2019)  View: PDF

Mueller Matrix Polarimetry—An Emerging New Tool for Characterizing the Microstructural Feature of Complex Biological Specimen

Honghui He, Ran Liao, Nan Zeng, Pengcheng Li, Zhenhua Chen, Xi Liu, and Hui Ma

J. Lightwave Technol. 37(11), 2534-2548 (2019)  View: PDF

Novel Type II Bragg Grating Structures in Silica Fibers Using Femtosecond Lasers and Phase Masks

Stephen J. Mihailov, Cyril Hnatovsky, and Dan Grobnic

J. Lightwave Technol. 37(11), 2549-2556 (2019)  View: PDF

Dynamic Strain Measurements Based on High-Speed Single-End-Access Brillouin Optical Correlation Domain Analysis

Bin Wang, Xinyu Fan, Yuanxiu Fu, and Zuyuan He

J. Lightwave Technol. 37(11), 2557-2567 (2019)  View: PDF

Demodulation of a Hydroacoustic Sensor Array of Fiber Interferometers Based on Ultra-Weak Fiber Bragg Grating Reflectors Using a Self-Referencing Signal

Ciming Zhou, Yandong Pang, Li Qian, Xi Chen, Qiannan Xu, Chenguang Zhao, Haoran Zhang, Ziwei Tu, Junbin Huang, Hongcan Gu, and Dian Fan

J. Lightwave Technol. 37(11), 2568-2576 (2019)  View: PDF

Optical Microfiber Sensors: Sensing Mechanisms, and Recent Advances

Jin-Hui Chen, Dan-Ran Li, and Fei Xu

J. Lightwave Technol. 37(11), 2577-2589 (2019)  View: PDF

Recent Progress in All-Fiber Non-Gaussian Optical Beam Shaping Technologies

Hyeonwoo Lee, Junbum Park, and Kyunghwan Oh

J. Lightwave Technol. 37(11), 2590-2597 (2019)  View: PDF

Hollow Core Inhibited Coupling Fibers for Biological Optical Sensing

Fabio Giovanardi, Annamaria Cucinotta, Andrea Rozzi, Roberto Corradini, Fetah Benabid, Lorenzo Rosa, and Luca Vincetti

J. Lightwave Technol. 37(11), 2598-2604 (2019)  View: PDF

Toward Commercial Polymer Fiber Bragg Grating Sensors: Review and Applications

Christian Broadway, Rui Min, Arnaldo Gomes Leal-Junior, Carlos Marques, and Christophe Caucheteur

J. Lightwave Technol. 37(11), 2605-2615 (2019)  View: PDF

Interface Sensitized Optical Microfiber Biosensors

Bai-Ou Guan and Yunyun Huang

J. Lightwave Technol. 37(11), 2616-2622 (2019)  View: PDF

Pseudo Whispering Gallery Mode Optofluidic Lasing Based on Air-Clad Optical Fiber

Chaoyang Gong, Yuan Gong, Xi Yang, Gang-Ding Peng, and Yun-Jiang Rao

J. Lightwave Technol. 37(11), 2623-2627 (2019)  View: PDF

Tuning of Polarization-Dependent Whispering Gallery Modes in Grapefruit Microstructured Optical Fibers Infiltrated With Negative Dielectric Anisotropy Liquid Crystals

Chengkun Yang, Hao Zhang, Bo Liu, Haifeng Liu, Chao Wang, and Shiwei Lin

J. Lightwave Technol. 37(11), 2628-2633 (2019)  View: PDF

Phase-Noise-Compensated OFDR Realized Using Hardware-Adaptive Algorithm for Real-Time Processing

Zhaopeng Zhang, Xinyu Fan, Mengshi Wu, and Zuyuan He

J. Lightwave Technol. 37(11), 2634-2640 (2019)  View: PDF

Influence of Laser Linewidth on Phase-OTDR System Based on Heterodyne Detection

Jiong Li, Zhitao Zhang, Jiulin Gan, Zhishen Zhang, Xiaobao Heng, Kaijun Zhou, Hua Zhao, Shanhui Xu, and Zhongmin Yang

J. Lightwave Technol. 37(11), 2641-2647 (2019)  View: PDF

Real-Time Denoising of Brillouin Optical Time Domain Analyzer With High Data Fidelity Using Convolutional Neural Networks

Hao Wu, Yangyang Wan, Ming Tang, Yunjin Chen, Can Zhao, Ruolin Liao, Yiqing Chang, Songnian Fu, Perry Ping Shum, and Deming Liu

J. Lightwave Technol. 37(11), 2648-2653 (2019)  View: PDF

Hyperfine Intrinsic Magnitude and Phase Response Measurement of Optical Filters Based on Electro-Optical Harmonics Heterodyne and Wiener–Lee Transformation

Xinhai Zou, Shangjian Zhang, Zhiyao Zhang, Zijie Ye, Rongguo Lu, Dejun Chen, Shuang Liu, Heping Li, and Yong Liu

J. Lightwave Technol. 37(11), 2654-2660 (2019)  View: PDF

Ultra-Fast Wavemeter for CW Laser Based on Wavelength-to-Time Mapping

Ye Xiao, Shuqian Sun, Wei Li, Ninghua Zhu, and Ming Li

J. Lightwave Technol. 37(11), 2661-2667 (2019)  View: PDF

Self-Calibrating Microwave Characterization of Broadband Mach–Zehnder Electro-Optic Modulator Employing Low-Speed Photonic Down-Conversion Sampling and Low-Frequency Detection

Yangxue Ma, Zhiyao Zhang, Shangjian Zhang, Jun Yuan, Zhengping Zhang, Dongbing Fu, Jianan Wang, and Yong Liu

J. Lightwave Technol. 37(11), 2668-2674 (2019)  View: PDF

Cascaded Fiber Up-Taper Modal Interferometer and Its Application as Fiber Sensor

Shandong Dong, Bo Dong, Changyuan Yu, and Yongxin Guo

J. Lightwave Technol. 37(11), 2675-2680 (2019)  View: PDF

Er/Yb Codoped Double Clad Fiber Modal Interferometer and Its Application as Fiber Sensor

Hening Yang, Bo Dong, Wei Zhao, Enqing Chen, Yishan Wang, and Jinhai Si

J. Lightwave Technol. 37(11), 2681-2685 (2019)  View: PDF

Novel Fiber Bragg Grating Sensing Method Based on the Sidelobe Modulation for Ultrasound Detection

Sheng Liang, Swee Chuan Tjin, Bo Lin, Xinzhi Sheng, Shuqin Lou, Yongxin Zhang, and Xin Wang

J. Lightwave Technol. 37(11), 2686-2693 (2019)  View: PDF

Ultrasonic Detection of High-Intensity Focused Ultrasound Field using Quadrature Point Phase Step in a Fiber Optic Interferometric Sensor

Ran Gao, Dan-feng Lu, Jin Cheng, and Zhi-mei Qi

J. Lightwave Technol. 37(11), 2694-2699 (2019)  View: PDF

An Enhanced Distributed Acoustic Sensor Based on UWFBG and Self-Heterodyne Detection

Yuanyuan Shan, Wenbin Ji, Xinyong Dong, Lu Cao, Mohammadmasoud Zabihi, Qing Wang, Yixin Zhang, and Xuping Zhang

J. Lightwave Technol. 37(11), 2700-2705 (2019)  View: PDF

Fiber-Optic Vector Accelerometer Using Orthogonal Bragg Grating Inscription Over Innermost Cladding of a Multi-Clad Fiber

Weijia Bao, Xueguang Qiao, and Qiangzhou Rong

J. Lightwave Technol. 37(11), 2706-2712 (2019)  View: PDF

Microvibration Measurement Based on Multichannel Projector-Camera System

Chengang Lyu, Jiale Gao, and Jie Jin

J. Lightwave Technol. 37(11), 2713-2718 (2019)  View: PDF

Fiber Optic Fabry-Perot Pressure Sensor With Embedded MEMS Micro-Cavity for Ultra-High Pressure Detection

Xiaoguang Qi, Shuang Wang, Junfeng Jiang, Kun Liu, Xue Wang, Yiguang Yang, and Tiegen Liu

J. Lightwave Technol. 37(11), 2719-2725 (2019)  View: PDF

Transverse Offset Based Single-Multi-Single Mode Fiber Structure for Vector Rotation Sensing

Xiaoyong Chen, Ruomeng Guan, and Paloma R. Horche

J. Lightwave Technol. 37(11), 2726-2733 (2019)  View: PDF

Approach for Temperature-Sensitivity Enhancement in a Tapered Dual-Core As₂Se₃-PMMA Fiber With an Antisymmetric Long-Period Grating

Song Gao, Chams Baker, Liang Chen, and Xiaoyi Bao

J. Lightwave Technol. 37(11), 2734-2738 (2019)  View: PDF

High Sensitivity All Optical Fiber Conductivity-Temperature-Depth (CTD) Sensing Based on an Optical Microfiber Coupler (OMC)

Yang Yu, Qiang Bian, Yang Lu, Xueliang Zhang, Junbo Yang, and Linmei Liang

J. Lightwave Technol. 37(11), 2739-2747 (2019)  View: PDF

Gold Nanoparticle-Functionalized Surface Plasmon Resonance Optical Fiber Biosensor: In Situ Detection of Thrombin With 1 n·M Detection Limit

Jiajie Lao, Linzi Han, Ze Wu, Xuejun Zhang, Yunyun Huang, Yong Tang, and Tuan Guo

J. Lightwave Technol. 37(11), 2748-2755 (2019)  View: PDF

Label-Free Thrombin Detection Using a Tapered Fiber-Optic Interferometric Aptasensor

Dandan Sun, Li-Peng Sun, Tuan Guo, and Bai-Ou Guan

J. Lightwave Technol. 37(11), 2756-2761 (2019)  View: PDF

Label-Free Detection of DNA Hybridization Utilizing Dual S-Tapered Thin-Core Fiber Interferometer

Xu Zhang, Bo Liu, Hao Zhang, Xu Zhang, Binbin Song, Jixuan Wu, and Shaoxiang Duan

J. Lightwave Technol. 37(11), 2762-2767 (2019)  View: PDF

Polypyrrole-Coated Polarization Maintaining Fiber-Based Vernier Effect for Isopropanol Measurement

Binqing Wu, Lihan Chen, Chunliu Zhao, and Chi Chiu Chan

J. Lightwave Technol. 37(11), 2768-2772 (2019)  View: PDF

Reflection-Based Thin-Core Modal Interferometry Optical Fiber Functionalized With PAA-PBA/PVA for Glucose Detection Under Physiological pH

Yan Ru Wang, Zhi Qiang Tou, Raghunandhan Ravikumar, Yi Yin Lim, Zhe Wen Ding, Chun Liu Zhao, Ping Lam So, and Chi Chiu Chan

J. Lightwave Technol. 37(11), 2773-2777 (2019)  View: PDF

Ion-Imprinted Chitosan-Based Interferometric Sensor for Selective Detection of Heavy Metal Ions

Raghunandhan Ravikumar, Li Han Chen, Melissa Meow Xin Hui, and Chi Chiu Chan

J. Lightwave Technol. 37(11), 2778-2783 (2019)  View: PDF

Development of a Quantum Cascade Laser-Based Sensor for Environmental HONO Monitoring in the Mid-Infrared at 8 μm

Xiao-juan Cui, Runqing Yu, Wei-dong Chen, Zhi-rong Zhang, Tao Pang, Peng-shuai Sun, Hua Xia, Bian Wu, and Feng-zhong Dong

J. Lightwave Technol. 37(11), 2784-2791 (2019)  View: PDF

In-Situ Detection of Small Biomolecule Interactions Using a Plasmonic Tilted Fiber Grating Sensor

Xiaoyong Chen, Yinggang Nan, Xuanyue Ma, Haiyang Liu, Wei Liu, Lei Shi, and Tuan Guo

J. Lightwave Technol. 37(11), 2792-2799 (2019)  View: PDF

Highly Sensitive Cell Concentration Detection by Resonant Optical Tunneling Effect

Aoqun Jian, Lu Zou, Gang Bai, Qianqian Duan, Yixia Zhang, Qianwu Zhang, Shengbo Sang, and Xuming Zhang

J. Lightwave Technol. 37(11), 2800-2806 (2019)  View: PDF

Noninvasive Measurement of Heart Rate and Respiratory Rate for Perioperative Infants

Yi Zhang, Zhihao Chen, and Hwan Ing Hee

J. Lightwave Technol. 37(11), 2807-2814 (2019)  View: PDF

Reflective Fiber-Optic Refractometer Using Broadband Cladding Mode Coupling Mediated by a Tilted Fiber Bragg Grating and an In-Fiber Mirror

Zhaochuan Zhang, Tuan Guo, and Bai-Ou Guan

J. Lightwave Technol. 37(11), 2815-2819 (2019)  View: PDF

Design and Optimization of Surface Plasmon Resonance Sensor Based on Polymer-Tipped Optical Fiber

Ze Zhang, Fenghong Chu, Zi Guo, Jinyu Fan, Gaofang Li, and Wei Cheng

J. Lightwave Technol. 37(11), 2820-2827 (2019)  View: PDF