Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute, Erice, Italy, May 10-20, 1986

Monomode Fibre Optic Interferometers and their Application in Sensing Systems.- Optical Fiber Interferometer Technology and Hydrophones.- Optical Fibre Hydrophones and Hydrophone Arrays.- Fiber-Optic Gyroscopes.- Theory of Spectral Encoding for Fiber-Optic Sensors.- Fibre Optic Intensity Modulated Sensors.- Distributed Optical-Fibre Sensors.- Distributed and Multiplexed Fibre Optic Sensor Systems.- Fiber Optic Temperature Sensors.- Guided-Wave Chemical Sensors.- Fiber LDA System.- Polarization Phenomena in Optical Fibers.- Integrated Optical Sensors.- Sources and Detectors for Fiber-Optic Sensors.- All-Fiber Gyroscope: Design and Performances.- Phase Recovery in the Interferometric Fiber-Optic Sensors.- Optical Fiber Sensor Coatings.- Thermodynamic Limitations to the Measurement of Phase Shifts in Optical Fibers.- Polarimetric Optical Fiber Pressure Sensor with Low Temperature Effects.- Fiberoptic Temperature Probe Utilizing a Semiconductor Sensor.- Laser Injection Modulation Sensors.- Chemical Senducers.- A Very Small Volume UV Absorbance Detector for Capillary Separation Systems.- Total Internal Reflection Fluorescence Surface Sensors.- Immobilized Antibodies - Fiber Optic Sensors for Biochemical Measurements.- Optical Fiber Sensors in Medicine.- The Present and Future Status of Fibre Optic Sensors in Industry.- Multimode-Fiber Coupled White-Light Interferometric Position Sensor.- Mach-Zehnder Systems for Heterodyne Fibre Polarimetry in Different Coherence Conditions.- Model for an Optical Fiber pH Sensor.- Integrated Optics for Sensors: A Review of the Activity in Italy.- List of Participants.