Sensor Applications of Fiber Bragg and Long Period Gratings -- Novel Sensing Mechanisms Using Tilted Fiber Bragg Gratings -- Photonic Liquid-Crystal Fibers: New Sensing Opportunities -- An Introduction to Reliability of Optical Components and Fiber Optic Sensors -- Development of the Distributed Brillouin Sensors for Health Monitoring of Civil Structures -- An Introduction to Radiation Effects on Optical Components and Fiber Optic Sensors -- Silicon-Based Microphotonics for Biosensing Applications -- Selectivity of Hybridization Controlled by the Density of Solid Phase Synthesized DNA Probes on Glass Substrates -- Biosensing Configurations Using Guided Wave Resonant Structures -- Polarized Light Transport into Scattering Media Using a Quaternion-Based Monte Carlo -- A Finite-Difference Time-Domain Model of Optical Phase Contrast Microscope Imaging -- Out of Plane Polarimetric Imaging of Skin: Surface and Subsurface Effect.