Sensors and Fiber Optics: Recent Trends

The worldwide optical fiber sensors (OFSs) market will reach $4.9 billion by 2025exceeding $2.9 billion in 2020 with a compound annual growth rate of 10.9%. Today’s advancements are focused on improving developing and perfecting novel sensing principles and transducers while reducing sensors cost. The current study aims to cover a wide range of contemporary OFSs based applications with special emphasis on health tracking. The work describes and critiques the exceptional types of OFSs and their maximum applications in diverse areas. Researchers will gain a deeper understanding of OFSs generation and an outline of the demanding situations that arise within the deployment of evolved technology. The study also focused on the impact of various nanomaterials on the development of OFSs. The purpose of this chapter is to give a comprehensive review of fiber-based sensing in various fields. Also the novel work on OFSs reported from 2017 to 2022 has been discussed. Studies about OFSs revealed they can be used for a wide variety of applications ranging from environmental monitoring to biosensing.