Smart Optical Sensor Systems: Advancing Accuracy
Through Frequency Measurement
Abstract
Smart optical sensors leveraging frequency output mechanisms are revolutionizing precision measurement in optics, photonics, and laser technologies. These sensors convert physical phenomena into frequency-modulated signals, offering superior immunity to noise and signal degradation compared to traditional analog outputs.
Frequency-based outputs facilitate seamless integration with digital systems, enhancing real-time data acquisition and processing capabilities. This is particularly advantageous in applications requiring high-resolution and rapid measurements, such as in advanced manufacturing, biomedical diagnostics, and aerospace engineering.
The adoption of frequency output in smart optical sensors and sensor systems underscores a significant shift towards more robust, accurate, and digitally compatible sensing solutions, aligning with the evolving demands of modern photonic and laser-based applications.
Short Biography
Prof., Dr. Sergey Y. Yurish has served as the president of the International Frequency Sensor Association (IFSA) - one of the major professional associations serving the sensor industry and academia since 1999. Dr. Yurish is a founder of three companies. He is editor-in-chief of the international peer-reviewed journal Sensors & Transducers and editor of several open access multivolume book series including the open access Book Series on ‘Advances in Microelectronics'. Dr. Yurish has obtained his PhD degree in 1996 from the National University Lviv Polytechnic (UA). He has published more than 180 articles and papers in international peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings. Dr. Yurish holds 9 patents and is an author and co-author of 12 books. He has delivered hundred speeches, tutorials and keynote presentations at industries, peer institutions, and professional conferences in 30 countries. Dr. Yurish was a Marie Curie Chairs Excellence Investigator at the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC, Barcelona, Spain) from 2006–2009, where he led and developed one of the most successful projects in the UPC on Smart Sensors Systems Design (SMARTSES). His professional accomplishments also include a Senior Research Fellowship at the Open University of Catalonia (UOC, Barcelona, Spain) where he spent a year in 2009–2010. Dr. Yurish has 40 years of research and academic experience, during which he has developed numerous projects on an international level in frames of various programmers, including NATO, FP6 and FP7.
