| Full Name | Abbreviation |
| optic fiber sensor | OFS |
| thermodynamic equation of seawater-2010 | TEOS-10 |
| thermodynamic equation 1980 | EOS-80 |
| practical salt standard 1978 | PSS78 |
| surface plasmon resonance | SPR |
| exposed core microstructured optical fiber | EC-MOF |
| long-period fiber grating | LPG |
| nano-bore optical fiber | NBF |
| hollow suspended-core fiber | HSCF |
| polarization maintaining fiber Bragg grating | PMFBG |
| superimposed long period grating | SLPG |
| Mach–Zehnder interferometer | MZI |
| frequency division multiplexing | FDM |
| polarization-maintaining fiber | PMF |
| microfiber-assisted MZI | MAMZI |
| fluorinated polyimide microfiber | FPMF |
| exposed-core microstructured optical fiber | ECF |
| double-side hole fiber | DSHF |
| PANDA-air-hole fiber | PAHF |
| microcavity in-line MZI | μIMZI |
| optical microfiber coupler | OMC |
| vibrating tube dosimeters | VTDs |
| polydimethylsiloxane | PDMS |
| refractive index | RI |
| hollow core fiber | HCF |
| photonic crystal fiber | PCF |
| single-mode | MS |
| fiber grating | FBG |
| transfer matrix method | TMM |
| Sagnac interferometer | SI |
| Fabry–Perot interferometer | FPI |
| focused ion beam | FIB |
| polyimide | PI |
| SMF-HCF-NCF-SMF | SHNS |
| single-mode fiber | SMF |
| multimode fiber | MMF |
| core diameter mismatch | CDM |
| polyethylene terephthalate | PET |
| no-core fiber | NCF |
| Michelson interferometer | MI |
| dispersion turning point | DTP |