Prof David Jackson, Emeritus Professor of Applied Optics, recently attended The International Conference on Optical Fiber Sensors (OFS), Conference held in Porto, Portugal, from 25-30 May 2025.
The conference offered plenary and invited talks, contributed oral and poster presentations, workshops, and exhibitions of commercial products. Prof. Jackson was part of the International Honorary Committee, program and more information about the conference can be found here.
The International Conference on Optical Fiber Sensors (OFS), established in 1983, is acknowledged as the world’s leading conference on all topics related to photonic sensing principles and technologies supported in fiber optics, providing a forum for reporting and exchanging ideas on the latest advances in the field. It has also contributed significantly to industrialization and standardization of the related devices and systems for field deployment.
At the beginning of the 1980s, the recognition of the opportunity for high-performance sensing associated with optical fiber led to the development of a new R&D field, creating a community that had its first meeting in London, April 1983, which became identified as OFS1-1st International Conference on Optical Fiber Sensors.
Since then, 28 editions of this conference have taken place every 18 months (except in the pandemic time), moving across Europe, Americas, and Asia/Pacific accordingly with the poetic principle “following the light” (the Sun). Over this period of more than 40 years the field expanded enormously in consequence of progress in multiple scientific and technological domains, also the diversity of applications where sensing supported by optical fiber presents comparative advantages.