Characterization and Applications of Specialty Optical Fibers
A special issue of Fibers (ISSN 2079-6439).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 25 May 2025 | Viewed by 124
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Interests: modeling and characterization of multisection semiconductor lasers for coherent systems; quantum well lasers; optical fiber amplifiers and lasers; soliton propagation; nanophotonics; optical sensors; polarization and nonlinear effects in optical fibers
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Specialty optical fibers play an important role in modern everyday life. Indeed, it is impossible to think about the current human environment without the contribution of various specialty optical fibers, from high-speed broadband internet to medical surgery, as well as the entire spectrum of scientific, military, industrial, and commercial applications. Specialty optical fibers, either in their special waveguide structure or novel material composition, have become the heart of all fiber-based advanced photonic devices and components, with important milestones including the invention of high-power optical amplifiers for CATV, FTTH, LIDAR, and free space communication systems, high-power fiber lasers for high-precision metal cutting, welding, and military applications, and the broadband supercontinuum source for OCT applications. The field of specialty optical fibers requires different disciplines’ expertise and skills, such as materials science, ceramic engineering, optics, electrical engineering, physics, polymer chemistry, and several others.
This Special Issue aims to document leading-edge theoretical and experimental work in specialty optical fiber (SOF) fabrication, characterization, and application. Both original research and review papers are welcome, covering topics including but not limited to the following:
- Rare earth optical fibers;
- Multicore optical fibers;
- Micro-structured optical fibers;
- Hollow-core photonic crystal fibers;
- Chalcogenide photonic crystal fibers;
- Fluoride optical fibers;
- Nanostructured soft-glass optical fibers;
- Plastic optic fibers;
- Large-mode-area fibers;
- Mid-infrared optical fibers;
- Highly nonlinear optical fibers;
- Optical fibers with low nonlinearity;
- Metal oxide glass-based optical fibers;
- Fiber probes for biosensing;
- Metal nanoparticle-doped optical fibers;
- Radiation-hardened/sensitive optical fibers.
Dr. Mario F. S. Ferreira
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- rare earth optical fibers
- multicore optical fibers
- micro-structured optical fibers
- hollow-core photonic crystal fibers
- chalcogenide photonic crystal fibers
- fluoride optical fibers
- nanostructured soft-glass optical fibers
- plastic optic fibers
- large-mode-area fibers
- mid-infrared optical fibers
- highly nonlinear optical fibers
- optical fibers with low nonlinearity
- metal oxide glass-based optical fibers
- fiber probes for biosensing
- metal nanoparticle-doped optical fibers
- radiation-hardened/sensitive optical fibers
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