Microstructured Optical Fibers and Applications
A special issue of Fibers (ISSN 2079-6439).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 October 2019) | Viewed by 13344
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Microstructured optical fibers (MOFs) or photonic crystal fibers are a special type of optical fibers that have a microscopic array of air channels running down their length. These fibers are of great scientific and technical interest owing to their extraordinary optical properties. Dispersion and loss can be controlled and optimized by engineering the holy cladding, which is not possible in conventional optical fibers. MOFs can be divided into two categories based on their guiding mechanism, high index guiding fibers (light guides in solid core), and low index guiding fibers (light guides in air). The past two decades have witnessed a number of impressive advancements in the field of MOFs. MOFs offer several potential and promising applications including supercontinuum generation, sensing, higher power fiber lasers, laser surgery, gas-based nonlinear applications, THz applications, and so on.
The purpose of this Special Issue is to bring together the recent advances in the design, fabrication, and characterization of MOFs and their applications. I hope that this Special Issue will provide a detailed overview of the current state-of-the-art research on MOFs. It is my pleasure to invite you to submit original material, as well as a review article, in this Special Issue.
Dr. Md Selim Habib
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- microstructure optical fiber
- photonic crystal fiber
- hollow core fiber
- multi-core fiber
- mid-IR fiber laser
- nonlinear fiber optics
- gas-filled fiber
- optics fiber sensor
- optical fiber communication
- THz optical fiber
- few-mode fiber
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