Recent breakthroughs in fibre technology have enabled the assembly of functional materials
with intimate interfaces into a single fibre with specific geometries,,,,,,,,,–, delivering diverse …

In recent years, chemically modified optical fibers have widely used for development of
several advanced chemical and biosensors, biomedical technology and environmental …

Applications involving optical fibers have grown considerably in recent years with intense
levels of research having been focused on the development of not only new generations of …

From a materials perspective optical fibers are victims of their own success. The advent of
the laser, 50 yr ago, coupled with an insatiable demand for information enabled by light …

The flux assisted molten core method, previously employed to fabricate glass-clad
crystalline GaAs core fiber, is applied here to realize crystalline selenide and phosphide …

This paper reviews recent progress in the nascent field of semiconductor optical fibres, from
the fundamentals through to device demonstration. The incorporation of semiconductor …

Novel core fibers have a wide range of applications in optics, as sources, detectors and
nonlinear response media. Optoelectronic, and even electronic device applications are now …

Reported here is the fabrication of tapered silicon core fibers possessing a nano-spike input
that facilitates their seamless splicing to conventional single mode fibers. A proof-of-concept …

Thermally drawn metal–insulator–semiconductor fibers provide a scalable path to functional
fibers. Here, a ladder-like metal–semiconductor–metal photodetecting device is formed …

The image depicts laser-induced crystallization of the amorphous germanium core of a silica
optical fiber in order to create a long and perfect single crystal of germanium inside the fiber …