We describe the history, guiding mechanism, recent advances, applications, and future
prospects for hollow-core negative curvature fibers. We first review one-dimensional slab …

The success of high-power fiber lasers is fueled by maturation of active and passive fibers,
combined with the availability of high-power fiber-based components. In this contribution, we …

A new class of composite materials has emerged which provides a means to control and
manipulate light. These materials, known as photonic crystals, are periodic arrays of …

We report a hollow-core photonic crystal fiber that is engineered so as to strongly suppress
higher-order modes, ie, to provide robust LP_01 single-mode guidance in all the wavelength …

The use of infrared lasers to power optical-scale lithographically fabricated particle
accelerators is a developing area of research that has garnered increasing interest in recent …

Infrared (IR) fibers offer a versatile approach to guiding and manipulating light in the IR
spectrum, which is becoming increasingly more prominent in a variety of scientific …

Photonic-Crystal Fibers Page 1 JOURNAL OF LIGHTWAVE TECHNOLOGY, VOL. 24, NO. 12,
DECEMBER 2006 4729 Photonic-Crystal Fibers Philip St.J. Russell, Member, IEEE Invited …

Since the advent of quantum mechanics and the clear demonstration of the existence
of'matter waves', physicists have never failed to take advantage of concepts and theoretical …

We review the optical guidance properties of hollow-core photonic crystal fibers. We follow a
historical perspective to introduce the two major optical guidance mechanisms that were …

We describe the design and fabrication of a photonic bandgap fiber formed with two different
glasses. As in a hollow-core fiber, light is guided in a low-index core region because of the …