Recent Advances in Hollow-Core Fiber Optics: Design, Fabrication, and Applications
A special issue of Photonics (ISSN 2304-6732).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (10 May 2025) | Viewed by 3429
Special Issue Editors
Interests: hollow-core fiber; Fabry–Perot; ultrastablized lasers; microwave photonics
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In recent years, hollow-core fibers (HCFs) have emerged as a revolutionary technology, offering a myriad of unique properties such as low latency, low thermal sensitivity, reduced nonlinear effects, and potentially lower losses compared to solid-core fibers due to the fact that HCFs guide light in air/vacuum. In particular, following the groundbreaking achievement of low loss demonstrated by researchers at the University of Southampton (0.17 dB/km), HCFs have garnered significant attention and witnessed remarkable progress.
We are pleased to announce this Special Issue, titled "Recent Advances in Hollow-Core Fiber Optics: Design, Fabrication, and Applications", dedicated to exploring recent developments in HCFs across all aspects of research and development. We invite submissions of original research papers and review articles presenting state-of-the-art advancements, technical breakthroughs, experimental demonstrations, and practical applications. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Novel designs of HCFs;
- Low-loss HCF fabrications across all wavelengths;
- HCFs made of soft glasses and polymers;
- Interconnection between HCFs and traditional solid-core fibers;
- Characterization and properties of HCFs;
- Hollow-core fiber-based components;
- HCFs for high-power delivery systems;
- Applications of HCFs in gas lasers and gas sensing;
- Nonlinear effects in HCFs;
- Microwave photonics utilizing HCFs;
- HCFs in optical networks;
- Emerging applications demonstrated with HCFs.
Dr. Meng Ding
Dr. Shoulin Jiang
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- hollow-core fiber optics
- HCFs for high-power delivery systems
- applications in HCFs
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