Meet the editor

Christian Cuadrado-Laborde received his PhD degree in Physics from the University of La Plata (UNLP, Argentina, 2005), and his Electrical and Electronic Engineering degree from the University of San Luis (UNSL, Argentina, 1998). He is an independent researcher of CONICET (2005), the most important federal research agency in Argentina. He leads the Laboratory of Optics and Photonics in the Institute of Physics Rosario (IFIR, Rosario,

Argentina). He is currently also Full Professor of the Engineering Faculty of the Pontifical Catholic University of Argentina (Rosario, Argentina). He was awarded by the Spanish Ministry of Science with a research fellow position to join the Optical Fiber Laboratory group headed by M.V. Andrés of the University of Valencia (Spain) during 2008–2009. Since then, he has continued collaborating actively with this research group. He has published several research papers in top-tier scientific journals such as *Progress in Optics*, *Optics Letters*, *Optics Express*, *Laser & Photonics Reviews*, *Optics & Photonics News*, etc. His current research interest includes fiber optics applications, photonic signal processing, and mode-locked all-fiber lasers.

**Preface III**

**Chapter 1 1**

**Chapter 2 7** Minimalist Approach for the Design of Microstructured Optical Fiber Sensors

**Chapter 3 23**

**Chapter 4 55**

**Chapter 5 81** Real-Time Particle Radiography by Means of Scintillating Fibers Tracker and

**Chapter 6 95**

**Chapter 7 117** Optical Fibre Long-Period Grating Sensors Operating at and around the Phase

*by Rebecca Yen-Ni Wong, Dora Hu Juan Juan, Morten Ibsen and Perry Ping Shum*

Fiber Bragg Gratings as e-Health Enablers: An Overview for Gait Analysis

*by Maria de Fátima Domingues, Cátia Tavares, Tiago Leite, Nélia Alberto, Cátia Leitão, Carlos Marques, Ayman Radwan, Eduardo Rocon, Paulo Antunes* 

*by Domenico Lo Presti, Giuseppe Gallo, Danilo Luigi Bonanno, Daniele Giuseppe Bongiovanni, Fabio Longhitano and Santo Reito*

Review of Liquid-Filled Optical Fibre-Based Temperature Sensing

*by Fintan McGuinness, Gabriel Leen, Elfed Lewis, Gerard Dooly, Daniel Toal* 

Introductory Chapter: Application of Optical Fiber for Sensing

*by Christian Cuadrado-Laborde*

Contents

Applications

*and Paulo André*

Residual Range Detectors

*and Dinesh Babu Duraibabu*

Matching Turning Point

*by Jonas H. Osório and Cristiano M. B. Cordeiro*

Distributed, Advanced Fiber Optic Sensors *by Sanjay Kher and Manoj Kumar Saxena*
