Over the past two decades, fiber laser technologies have matured to such an extent that they
have captured a large portion of the commercial laser marketplace. Yet, there still is a …

Fifty years have elapsed from the moment the first light transmitting ceramic‐based
commercial item—a sodium vapor‐based street lamp component—reached the market. This …

Recent progress in combining multiple materials with disparate optical, electronic, and
thermomechanical properties monolithically in the same fiber drawn from a preform is …

As performance demands continue to grow, many optical fibre systems are operating at
progressively higher power levels. However, Brillouin scattering restricts continued power …

Optical fibers have transformed our lives. Not only do they act as the pipeline through which
information is transmitted around the globe, but they are also critical components in a …

The increasing fields of applications for modern optical fibers present great challenges to the
material properties and the processing technology of fiber optics. This paper gives an …

The state of the art of single crystal fiber (SCF) fabrication has evolved and improved over
the last five decades. Nowadays, edge‐defined film‐feed growth, micro‐pulling down, and …

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 …

Long lengths (250 meters) of a flexible 150 μm diameter glass-clad optical fiber containing a
15 μm diameter crystalline and phase-pure germanium core was fabricated using …

Presented here is a review of recent progress in the nascent field of glass-clad
semiconductor core optical fibers. Such fibers, generally focused to-date on silicon and …