Flexibility in engineering holey structures and controlling the wave guiding properties in
photonic crystal fibers (PCFs) has enabled a wide variety of PCF-based plasmonic …

The field of hybrid optical fibers is one of the most active research areas in current fiber
optics and has the vision of integrating sophisticated materials inside fibers, which are not …

Increasing customer demand for durable and functional apparel manufactured in a
sustainable manner has created an opportunity for nanomaterials to be integrated into textile …

Optical fibers have been widely applied to telecommunication, imaging, lasers, and sensing.
Among the different types of fibers, photonic crystal fibers (PCFs), also called …

In recent years, nanotechnology (NT) has proved to be an interdisciplinary research field,
and has enlarged its scope of applications in versatile areas of human endeavor. The quests …

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

Using conventional materials, the resolution of focusing and imaging devices is limited by
diffraction to about half the wavelength of light, as high spatial frequencies do not propagate …

Sapphire shaped crystals are considered as a favorable material platform of the terahertz
(THz) waveguide and fiber optics. Unique physical properties of sapphire, along with …

Photonic crystal fibers (PCFs) are a special class of optical fibers with a periodic
arrangement of microstructured holes located in the fiber's cladding. Light confinement is …

This paper reviews the topic of microstructured polymer fibres in the fields in which these
have been utilised: microstructured optical fibres, terahertz waveguides, and fibre‐drawn …