Advances in Optical Fibers II

Dear Colleagues,

Optical fibers have largely demonstrated a central role in a growing number of current technologies and applications. The continuous advances in fabrication methods, materials and structures, combined with researchers’ ingenuity, have led to an impressive amount of new components and applications in the last decade, especially in optical communications, sensing, defense and security, automotive, and biomedicine. Three years after the successful first Special Issue (SI) of this journal devoted to “Advances in Optical Fibers”, the purpose of the present SI is again to collate contributions by experts from academia, industry, and the public/government sector to survey the most recent advances and prospects in optical fiber materials, designs, and applications.

Topics include: materials, processing, fabrication technologies, measurements, propagation properties, modeling, fiber designs, microstructured and photonic-crystal fibers, fiber devices and passive components, fiber gratings and their applications, specialty fibers, micro and nano-fibers, fiber sensors, fiber optic probes, fiber amplifiers and lasers, IR and THz fibers, novel applications.

Dr. Giancarlo C. Righini
Dr. Shibin Jiang
Prof. Dr. Francesco
Guest Editors

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