This conference is now the sixth of the Optical Fiber Sensors (OFS) series, the first having been launched in London in 1983. Progress over the last six years has been rapid and the number of laboratories working in the field has grown significantly. In addition, the number of commercially available sensors is growing, although, as usual, not as rapidly as the wilder optimists originally predicted. The subject is now maturing significantly, yet this volume shows that there is still no shortage of bright, new ideas. The OFS series is devoted to the most recent research developments in the field and, in most respects, leaves commercially oriented conferences to cover items closest to production. However, as the technology progresses, it is appropriate to provide some coverage of applications-oriented research and development, and more applied sessions of this nature have been included. The standard of papers contributed to the conference has been very high this year, and it has unfortunately been necessary to reject a number of interesting papers. Those that remain, invited, contributed and poster papers, are included in this volume. The poster papers were chosen for their greater suitability for presentation to smaller groups of people, giving more scope for detailed discussion around the poster display.

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Contributions to this book describe the latest developments in optical fiber sensors. Progress is reported in the areas of fiber-optic sensors, sensor networks, sensor multiplexing, and various essential fiber-optic components, including optical sources. Major research organizations present novel devices and techniques for fiber-optic sensing, suggesting possible future directions for the field. The invited papers provide an overview of modern fiber-optic sensors and their most important applications.

Inhalt
I Components and Special Fibers.- II Interferometer Signal Processing I: Narrow Band Sources.- III Interferometer Signal Processing II: White Light Interferometry and Coherence Modulation.- IV Ring Resonators.- V Optical Fiber Gyroscopes and Special Sources.- VI Noise in Interferometers.- VII Systems and Applications.- VIII Current and Magnetic Field Sensors.- IX Poster Papers.- X Smart Structures and Strain Monitoring.- XI Chemical and Biochemical Sensors.- XII Pressure Sensors.- XIII Multiplexed Sensors.- XIV Distributed Sensors.- Index of Contributors.