Meet the editor

Professor Shien-Kuei Liaw received a PhD in photonics engineering from National Chiao-Tung University and one in mechanical engineering from National Taiwan University of Science and Technology. He was an academic visitor at Bellcore (now Telcordia), USA; University of Oxford, UK; and University of Cambridge, UK. He owns 40 patents and has authored and coauthored more than 250 journal articles and international con-

ference papers in the fields of optics and photonics. His expertise is in fiber-based devices, optical communication, fiber sensing, and reliability testing. Currently, Dr. Liaw is a distinguished professor and vice dean of the National Taiwan University of Science and the secretary-general of the Taiwan Photonic Society. He is a senior member of IPS, OSA, and SPIE.

Contents

of Fiber Optic Sensing *by Shien-Kuei Liaw*

Development

**Preface III**

**Chapter 1 1**

**Chapter 2 7**

**Chapter 3 23**

**Chapter 4 43**

**Chapter 5 59**

Vital Sign Measurement Using FBG Sensor for New Wearable Sensor

Introductory Chapter: An Overview the Methodologies and Applications

Theoretic Study of Cascaded Fiber Bragg Grating *by Mofreh Toba and Fathy Mohamed Mustafa*

*by Avishay Shamir, Aviran Halstuch and Amiel A. Ishaaya*

The State-of-the-Art of Brillouin Distributed Fiber Sensing *by Cheng Feng, Jaffar Emad Kadum and Thomas Schneider*

Femtosecond Transient Bragg Gratings

*by Shouhei Koyama and Hiroaki Ishizawa*
