In this review, we introduce photonic crystal fibre as a novel optofluidic microdevice that can
be employed as both a versatile chemical sensor and a highly efficient microreactor. We …

Photonic crystal fibers are a kind of fiber optics that present a diversity of new and improved
features beyond what conventional optical fibers can offer. Due to their unique geometric …

This short review highlights some of the exciting new experimental and theoretical
developments in the field of photoactivatable metal complexes and their applications in …

Abstract Lab-in-a-Fiber (LIF), a counterpart of Lab-on-a-chip, however, deployed within the
cylindrical optical fiber geometry, emerges as a promising approach into the development of …

Efficient generation of a broad-band mid-infrared supercontinuum spectrum is reported in an
arsenic trisulphide waveguide embedded in silica. A chalcogenide “nano-spike”, designed …

We theoretically and experimentally characterize a liquid-filled nodeless anti-resonant fiber
(LARF) that could find versatile applications in biochemical sensing. When a hollow-core …

Guiding light inside the hollow cores of microstructured optical fibers is a major research
field within fiber optics. However, most of current fibers reveal limited spectral operation …

The study of photochemical reactions is of great importance in many fields including the
pharmaceutical, food, and paint industry. Most of these photochemical processes are being …

Metals have been considered for millennia to have medicinal values. With the advent of
modern medicine, many metal-based drugs have proven to be highly effective in the clinic …

Hollow core optical fibers of numerous guiding mechanisms have been studied in the past
decades for their advantages on guiding light in air core. This work demonstrates a new …