Recent advances in optical fiber-based gas sensors utilizing light-induced acoustic/elastic techniques

Gas sensing detects gas properties, such as physical, molecular, optical, thermodynamic, and dynamic properties. Light-induced acoustic techniques include monitoring the optical and physical properties of the gas. Fiber-based gas sensing is important because it offers several unique advantages compared to traditional gas sensing technologies, such as high sensitivity and accuracy, a compact and lightweight design, remote sensing capabilities, multiplexing, and distributed sensing. We review the recent developments in optical fiber-based gas sensors utilizing light-induced acoustic/elastic techniques based on photoacoustic spectroscopy, Brillouin scattering, and light-induced thermoelastic spectroscopy (LITES).