Photonic crystal fibers, devices, and applications

Abstract

This paper reviews different types of air-silica photonic crystal fibers (PCFs), discusses their novel properties, and reports recent advances in PCF components and sensors as well as techniques for splicing PCFs to standard telecomm fibers.

Keywords

photonic crystal fibers (PCFs) / microstructured optical fibers / hollow-core photonic bandgap fibers (HC PBFs) / optical fiber devices / optical fiber sensors

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Acknowledgements

The research work was partially supported by the Hong Kong SAR government (Nos. PolyU5196/09E, PolyU5182/07E, PolyU5187/06E); the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grants Nos. 61290313 and 60629401), the Hong Kong Polytechnic University (No. J-BB9K). We thank Y. P. Wang, H. F. Xuan, L. M. Xiao, K. S. Hung, H. C. Park, D. N. Wang, M. Zhang, C. L. Zhao, Y. B. Liao, I. K. Hwang, Z. Wang, M. S. Demokan, H. Y. Tam, B. Y. Kim and R. S. Windeler for their contributions/inputs at different stages of the research.

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