This paper presents a comprehensive review of the literature and trends on the design of
periodic microstructural composite materials including photonic crystals (PtCs), phononic …

The current generation is witnessing a huge interest in optical waveguides due to their
salient features: they are of low cost, immune to electromagnetic interference, easy to …

Liquid Crystal Devices are crucial and ubiquitous components of an ever-increasing number
of technologies. They are used in everything from cellular phones, eBook readers, GPS …

We investigate the effects of two-dimensional confinement on the lasing properties of a
classical random laser system operating in the incoherent feedback (diffusive) regime. A …

This article offers an extensive survey of results obtained using hybrid photonic-crystal fibers
(PCFs) which constitute one of the most active research fields in contemporary fiber optics …

Photonic crystal fibers present a wavelength-scale periodic microstructure running along
their length. Their core and two-dimensional photonic crystal might be based on varied …

A review of optical fiber sensing demonstrations based on photonic crystal fibers is
presented. The text is organized in five main sections: the first three deal with sensing …

This study proposes a photonic crystal fiber made of fused silica glass, with the core
infiltrated with tetrachloroethylene (C 2 Cl 4) as a new source of supercontinuum (SC) …

Photonic crystal fibers (PCFs) have attracted significant attention during the last years and
much research has been devoted to develop fiber designs for various applications …

Electrically tunable photonic bandgap guidance in a liquid-crystal-filled photonic crystal fiber
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