Optical fibres have for almost three decades been fabricated of solid glass. It was, therefore,
a radical change that took place, when researchers in the late 90's started to fabricate hair …

Since the early conceptual and practical demonstrations in the late 1990s, Hollow-Core
Photonic Band Gap Fibres (HC-PBGFs) have attracted huge interest by virtue of their …

This book aims to provide expert guidance to researchers experienced in classical
technology, as well as to those new to the field. A variety of perspectives on Photonic Crystal …

Photonic crystal fibers are a new class of optical fibers. Their artificial crystal-like
microstructure results in a number of unusual properties. They can guide light not only …

Recent progress on numerical modeling methods for photonic crystal fibers (PCFs) such as
the effective index approach, basis-function expansion approach, and numerical approach …

We have numerically studied a hollow-core photonic crystal fiber, with its core filled with
highly nonlinear liquids such as carbon disulfide and nitrobenzene. Calculations show that …

Holey fibers with small-core dimensions relative to the optical wavelength and large air-
filling fractions offer tight mode confinement and are therefore attractive for highly nonlinear …

We demonstrate a new class of hollow-core Bragg fibers that are composed of concentric
cylindrical silica rings separated by nanoscale support bridges. We theoretically predict and …

Hole-assisted fibers have been proposed for a number of applications, including low-bend-
loss access transmission. Suppression of higher-order modes is essential in these designs …

We report the first hollow core photonic crystal fibers (HC PCF) in chalcogenide glass. To
design the required HC PCF profiles for such high index glass, we use both band diagram …