Optical Waveguide Sensing and Imaging

by Wojtek J. Bock (Editor), Israel Gannot (Editor), Stoyan Tanev (Editor)

Overview

The book explores various aspects of existing and emerging fiber and waveguide optics sensing and imaging technologies including recent advances in nanobiophotonics. The focus is both on fundamental and applied research as well as on applications in civil engineering, biomedical sciences, environment, security and defence. The book aims to provide a reference of state-of-the-art overviews covering a variety of topics on the interface of engineering and biomedical sciences.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781402069512
Publisher:	Springer Netherlands
Publication date:	12/17/2007
Series:	NATO Science for Peace and Security Series B: Physics and Biophysics
Edition description:	2008
Pages:	269
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.02(d)

Table of Contents

Sensor Applications of Fiber Bragg and Long Period Gratings.- Novel Sensing Mechanisms Using Tilted Fiber Bragg Gratings.- Photonic Liquid-Crystal Fibers: New Sensing Opportunities.- An Introduction to Reliability of Optical Components and Fiber Optic Sensors.- Development of the Distributed Brillouin Sensors for Health Monitoring of Civil Structures.- An Introduction to Radiation Effects on Optical Components and Fiber Optic Sensors.- Silicon-Based Microphotonics for Biosensing Applications.- Selectivity of Hybridization Controlled by the Density of Solid Phase Synthesized DNA Probes on Glass Substrates.- Biosensing Configurations Using Guided Wave Resonant Structures.- Polarized Light Transport into Scattering Media Using a Quaternion-Based Monte Carlo.- A Finite-Difference Time-Domain Model of Optical Phase Contrast Microscope Imaging.- Out of Plane Polarimetric Imaging of Skin: Surface and Subsurface Effect.