The overall goal of photonics research is to understand and control light in new and richer
ways to facilitate new and richer applications. Many major developments to this end have …

The history of the development and current state of hollow-core optical fibers are reviewed.
The basic properties which determine the competitive advantages of hollow-core fibers and …

Raman scattering has found renewed interest owing to the development of gas-filled hollow-
core fibers, which constitute a unique platform for exploration of novel ultrafast nonlinear …

We have reported a pulsed fiber gas Raman laser oscillator at 1.7 µm based on an all-fiber
resonant cavity, which is made by splicing solid-core fibers with a 50-meter-long hydrogen …

We experimentally and numerically investigate flat supercontinuum generation in gas-filled
anti-resonant guiding hollow-core photonic crystal fiber. By comparing results obtained with …

Generation of 23-fs-long laser pulses with energy of 8.5 μJ at the wavelength of 1.8 μm is
achieved by means of Raman conversion of 250-fs 50-μJ pulses at the wavelength of 1.03 …

We report a study of soliton self-frequency shifting in a hydrogen-filled hollow-core fiber. The
combination of hydrogen and short 40-fs input pulses underlies clean and efficient …

Generation of picosecond mid-infrared pulses in Raman gas fiber lasers is studied. Efficient
Raman generation of picosecond pulses at a wavelength of 3.9 m is realized for the first time …

A helium-xenon gas-discharge fiber laser based on hollow-core fiber is demonstrated for the
first time. Being pumped by a pulsed microwave radiation at 2.45 GHz in a slot antenna …

We combine soliton dynamics in gas-filled hollow-core photonic crystal fibers with a state-of-
the-art fiber laser to realize a turnkey system producing few-femtosecond pulses at 8-MHz …