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.

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Multimaterial Fibers.- Optical Micro/Nanofiber as Valuable Technological Platform for Lab on Fiber.- SOI Microring Resonator Sensor Integrated on a Fiber Facet.- Monolithic Silicon Photonic Crystal Fiber Tip Sensors.- Hybrid Nanoimprint-Soft Lithography for Highly Curved Surface with Sub-15 nm Resolution.- Functional Metamaterials for Lab on Fiber.- Multifunctional Fiber Optic Plasmonic Nanoprobes.- Miniaturized Optical Tweezers Through Fiber-End Microfabrication.- Hydrogen Detection Using a Single Palladium Nano-aperture on a Fiber Tip.- Lab-in-a-Microfibre.- Lab on Fiber by Using the Breath Figure Technique.- Electrohydrodynamic Dispenser for Delivering Multiphase Samples at Nanoscale.- Optical Fiber Sensors Based on Nanostructured Materials.- Sensitive and Selective Lab-on-a-Fiber Sensor for Bacteria Detection in Water.- Photonic Crystal Fiber as a Lab-in-Fiber Optofluidic Platform.- Overview of Micro- and Nanostructured Surface Plasmon Resonance Fiber Sensor.**