Lab-on-Fiber Technology [Hardcover]

This book focuses on a research field that is rapidly emerging as one of the most promising ones for the global optics and photonics community: the lab-on-fiber technology. Inspired by the well-established lab on-a-chip concept, this new technology essentially envisages novel and highly functionalized devices completely integrated into a single optical fiber for both communication and sensing applications.
Based on the R&D experience of some of the world's leading authorities in the fields of optics, photonics, nanotechnology, and material science, this book provides a broad and accurate description of the main developments and achievements in the lab-on-fiber technology roadmap, also highlighting the new perspectives and challenges to be faced.
This book is essential for scientists interested in the cutting-edge fiber optic technology, but also for graduate students.

Multimaterial Fibers.- Monolithic Silicon Photonic Crystal Fiber Tip Sensors.- Electrohydrodinamic Dispenser for Delivering Multiphase Samples at Nanoscale.- Lab-on-Fiber Technology: Towards Multifunctional Optical Nanoprobes.- Functional Metamaterials for Lab-on-a-fiber.- Nanofibers as Valuable Technological Platform for Lab on Fiber.- Lab-on-Fiber by Using the Breath Figures Technique.- Hybrid Nanoimprint-Soft Lithography for Highly Curved Surface with Sub-15 nm Resolution .- Overview of Micro- and Nanostructured Fiber Sensors .- Nanophotonics Within Silica Structured Optical Fibres.- Miniaturized Optical Tweezers Through Fiber-End Microfabrication.- Silicon-on-Insulator Microring Resonator Sensor Integrated on an Optical Fiber Facet.- Optical Fibers as Platforms for Subwavelength Plasmonic Structures..- Fiber-top and Ferrule-top Micromachined Devices: A New Platform of All-optical Sensors and Actuators.- Hydrogen Detection Using a Single Palladium Nano-aperture on a Fiber Tip.- Sensitive and Selective Lab-on-a-Fiber Sensor for Bacteria Detectlc<