Optical Sensors (Sensors)
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Optical Sensors (Sensors)
Optical sensors have numerous applications in research and development, national defense and commercial markets such as medical diagnostics and process control.
Because of the breadth of applications for optical sensors, the challenges to the design and functioning of an optical sensor for a particular purpose requires intimate knowledge of optical, material and environmental properties that affect sensor performance across physical scales.
The Sensors meeting addresses all aspects of optical sensors from source and detection technologies, sensor configurations and processing approaches to applications.
The meeting is arranged in broad topic categories and themes accessible to researchers at any career stage. Beyond the topics listed below, Sensors will be exploring focused topics that are considered timely due to a surge in literature or notoriety. This year’s focus is on quantum dot-based sensing/imaging, in honor of the recent Nobel prize in this area and Photonic Integrated Circuit (PICs) due to the surge in capability for these systems.
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Optical Sensors (Sensors)
Sensors addresses all aspects of optical sensors from source and detection technologies, sensor configurations and processing approaches to applications.
Beyond the topics listed below, Sensors will be exploring focused topics that are considered timely due to a surge in literature or notoriety. This year’s focus is on quantum dot-based sensing/imaging, in honor of the recent Nobel prize in this area and Photonic Integrated Circuit (PICs) due to the surge in capability for these systems.
Topics of Interest
- Optical Fiber Sensors
Delves into a diverse range of topics, including the development of novel optical fiber sensor technologies, the design of sensing systems, the exploration of cutting-edge optical materials and the application of such systems in real-world scenarios spanning from structural health monitoring and environmental sensing to healthcare and industrial automation. The focus of the topic will be on point (interferometric, polarimetric, refractometric and grating based), quais-distributed and distributed sensors. Examples include, but are not restricted to, gyro, current, magnetic field, radiation, bio and chemical, strain, temperature, pressure, vibrations, hydrophone arrays, shape sensing, DAS, OTDR and OFDR.
- Laser Based Sensors
Based upon direct and indirect detection of laser light interacting with a target object, which inherently allow for non-invasive measurements with high precision and high accuracy as well as fast response. Thus, demands and challenges for laser-based sensors continue to grow in both science and technology. Topics include laser ellipsometry, laser speckle imaging, laser spectroscopy, laser Doppler vibrometry, laser interferometry, laser light detection and ranging and laser-based quantum-enhanced sensing.
- Optical Biological and Chemical Sensors
Technologies such as fluorescence, Raman and infrared spectroscopy, fiber optics, silicon photonics, nanophotonics and plasmonics have all found recent application in chemical and biological sensing. These sensors utilize similar scientific principles to tackle a wide variety of detection challenges from multiple disciplines. Applications for these sensors addressing the critical needs in health, environment, food, forensics, safety and security are all a focus of this topic.
- Terahertz Sensors
Innovations in source and detector technologies, tailored electromagnetic materials and computational intelligence are making the terahertz spectral region (0.1 - 30 THz) much more accessible for innovative sensing concepts. This topic features contributions in all these areas, with an emphasis on exploring how the terahertz region provides unique capabilities to detect and recognize unique signatures.
Paul Pellegrino
US Army Research Laboratory, USA,
General Chair
Katerina Krebber
Federal Institute for Materials Research, Germany,
Program Chair
Frank Vollmer
University of Exeter, UK,
Program Chair
Filiz Yesilkoy
University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA,
Program Chair
Program Committee
Paul Pellegrino, US Army Research Laboratory, USA, General Chair
Katerina Krebber, Federal Institute for Materials Research, Germany, Program Chair
Frank Vollmer, University of Exeter, UK, Program Chair
Filiz Yesilkoy, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA, Program Chair
Laser Based Sensors Subcommittee
Yoonchan Jeong, Seoul National University, Republic of Korea, Subconference Chair
Optical Biological and Chemical Sensors Subcommittee
Jennifer Morales, US Army Research Laboratory, USA, Subconference Chair
Tanya Hutter, University of Texas at Austin, USA
Koji Masuda, University of Exeter, UK
Sachin Srivastava, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India
Nikita Toropov, University of Southampton, UK
Peter Zijlstra, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands
Optical Fiber Sensors Subcommittee
Ali Masoudi, University of Southampton, UK, Subconference Chair
Xin Lu, Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und, Germany
Sonia Martin-Lopez, Universidad de Alcala, Spain
Aldo Minardo, Univ della Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, Italy
Marcelo Soto, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Chile
Carmen Vazquez, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
Terahertz Sensors Subcommittee
Mira Naftaly, National Physical Laboratory, UK, Subconference Chair
