Advanced Optical-Fiber-Related Technologies

Dear Colleagues,

Optical fiber technologies are revolutionizing the world of communications, laser, sensors, and quantum systems. Newly developed fiber amplifiers allow for the direct transmission of high-speed signals over transcontinental distances without the need for electronic regeneration. Great possibilities of controlling the properties of light have made fiber lasers and amplifiers the optical sources of choice for a large range of scientific and industrial applications. Optical fiber sensors can provide nearly every physical parameter measurement including strain, torsion, temperature, vibration, and heat with high precision. They have found applications in structural health monitoring, robotics, biomedical applications and space research. Recently, optical fibers have found applications in waveguide quantum electrodynamics.

It is my pleasure and honor to present this Special Issue of Applied Sciences, titled “Advanced Optical-Fiber-Related Technologies”. I kindly invite you to submit your original research or review papers to this Special Issue. All papers will be subject to the normal standards and peer-review processes of the journal.

The purpose of this Special Issue is to provide an overview of recent experimental and theoretical achievements in optical fiber technologies. This Special Issue welcomes contributions from theoretical, numerical, and experimental studies, from fundamentals to application studies including fiber communications, fiber lasers, fiber sensors, fiber Bragg gratings, LPGs, fiber materials and design.

Potential topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Fiber lasers and amplifiers.
• Raman fiber lasers and amplifiers.
• Brillouin fiber lasers and amplifiers.
• Radiation-balanced (athermal) fiber lasers.
• Fiber frequency comb sources.
• Fiber supercontinuum sources.
• Photonic crystal fibers.
• Chalcogenide fibers.
• Tellurite fibers.
• Fluoride fibers.
• New fiber materials and designs.
• Laser cooling in optical fibers.
• Nonlinear effects in optical fibers .
• Fiber Bragg grating and LPGs.
• Fiber switching, memory, and signal processing.
• Long-haul transmission systems.
• Fiber local area networks.
• Fiber sensors and instrumentation.
• Waveguide quantum electrodynamics.

Dr. Galina Nemova
Guest Editor

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