**Meet the editors**

Mohamad Yasin received his B.Sc in 1990 from Airlangga University. He went on to receive M.Sc and Ph.D from Gadjah Mada University in 1999 and 2010, respectively. His research interest includes fiber optic sensors and devices. Currently, he is an associate professor at the Faculty of Science and Technology, Airlangga Univesity, Indonesia.

Sulaiman Wadi Harun received the B.E degree in Electrical and Electronics System Engineering from Nagaoka University of Technology, Japan in 1996, and M.Sc and Ph.D degrees in Photonic Technology from University of Malaya in 2001 and 2004, respectively. He is actively working on optical amplifiers, fiber lasers and fiber-optic sensors, with more than 350 publications in ISI jour-

nals and citations of more than 2200. He is currently a full Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Malaya, Malaysia and his email address is swharun@um.edu.my

Hamzah Arof received his B.Sc from Michigan State University, and Ph.D from the University of Wales, all in Electrical engineering. His current research interests include signal processing and photonics. Currently he is affiliated with the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Malaya, Malaysia. He can be contacted at ahamzah@um.edu.my.

Contents

**Preface VII**

**Principle and Practice 1**

**Fibre Grating 23**

Davletbaeva

Lars Naehle

Chapter 1 **Fiber Optic and Free Space Michelson Interferometer —**

Michal Lucki, Leos Bohac and Richard Zeleny

Chapter 3 **Optical Sensors Based on Mesoporous Polymers 47**

Chapter 5 **Microsphere and Fiber Optics based Optical Sensors 83**

Chapter 6 **Self-Protected Sensor System Utilizing Fiber Bragg Grating**

A. Rostami, H. Ahmadi, H. Heidarzadeh and A. Taghipour

Chapter 7 **Bio and Chemical Sensors Based on Surface Plasmon Resonance**

Fabrício Pinheiro Povh and Wagner de Paula Gusmão dos Anjos

Chapter 4 **Photonic Crystal Laser Based Gas Sensor 67**

**(FBG)-Based Sensors 103**

**in a Plastic Optical Fiber 119** Nunzio Cennamo and Luigi Zeni

Chien-Hung Yeh and Chi-Wai Chow

Chapter 8 **Optical Sensors Applied in Agricultural Crops 141**

Chapter 2 **Optical Fibre Sensors Based on UV Inscribed Excessively Tilted**

Chengbo Mou, Zhijun Yan, Kaiming Zhou and Lin Zhang

Ruslan Davletbaev, Alsu Akhmetshina, Askhat Gumerov and Ilsiya

Marcus Wolff, Henry Bruhns, Johannes Koeth, Wolfgang Zeller and
