Hollow-core optical fibers for telecommunications and data transmission

K Borzycki, T Osuch - Applied Sciences, 2023 - mdpi.com
Hollow-core optical fibers (HCFs) have unique properties like low latency, negligible optical
nonlinearity, wide low-loss spectrum, up to 2100 nm, the ability to carry high power, and …

Delivery of CW laser power up to 300 watts at 1080 nm by an uncooled low-loss anti-resonant hollow-core fiber

X Zhu, D Wu, Y Wang, F Yu, Q Li, Y Qi, J Knight… - Optics express, 2021 - opg.optica.org
In this paper, we report the use of a 3-meter low-loss anti-resonant hollow-core fiber (AR-
HCF) to deliver up to 300 W continuous-wave laser power at 1080 nm wavelength from a …

Microlens Hollow-Core Fiber Probes for Operando Raman Spectroscopy

MJ Groom, E Miele, J Pinnell, MG Ellis… - ACS …, 2024 - ACS Publications
We introduce a flexible microscale all-fiber-optic Raman probe which can be embedded into
devices to enable operando in situ spectroscopy. The facile-constructed probe is composed …

Glass: The carrier of light—Part II—A brief look into the future of optical fiber

J Ballato, PD Dragic - International Journal of Applied Glass …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Glass optical fibers have reached a scale and commercial maturity that few, if any, other
material and form can claim. Furthermore, optical fibers not only enable a remarkably broad …

Unified coupled-mode theory for geometric and material perturbations in optical waveguides

G Guerra, SMA Mousavi, A Taranta… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2022 - opg.optica.org
Coupled-mode theory is a powerful tool to understand and control the effects of deployment
and fabrication imperfections on optical waveguides. Although it provides many advantages …

Hollow core optical fiber enabled by epsilon-near-zero material

L Zhang, S Love, A Anopchenko, HWH Lee - Nanophotonics, 2024 - degruyter.com
Hollow core optical fibers of numerous guiding mechanisms have been studied in the past
decades for their advantages on guiding light in air core. This work demonstrates a new …

Laser-induced damage of an anti-resonant hollow-core fiber for high-power laser delivery at 1 µm

X Zhu, F Yu, D Wu, S Chen, Y Jiang, L Hu - Optics Letters, 2022 - opg.optica.org
We demonstrate high-power laser delivery exceeding 1 kilowatt through a 5-meter
homemade anti-resonant hollow-core fiber (AR-HCF) at 1-µm wavelength. Laser-induced …

Integration of an anti-resonant hollow-core fiber with a multimode Yb-doped fiber for high power near-diffraction-limited laser operation

H Li, C Goel, J Zang, S Raghuraman, S Chen… - Optics …, 2022 - opg.optica.org
We proposed and demonstrated mode cleaning in a high-power fiber laser by integrating an
anti-resonant hollow-core fiber (AR-HCF) into a multimode laser cavity of an ytterbium (Yb) …

[HTML][HTML] Designing hollow-core multi-mode anti-resonant fibers for industrial high-power laser delivery

W Shere, GT Jasion, E Numkam-Fokoua… - Optical Fiber …, 2023 - Elsevier
We investigate the design of hollow-core fibers for the delivery of 10s of kilowatt average
power from multi-mode laser sources where delivery through solid-core fibers is typically …

Searching for scalar ultralight dark matter via refractive index changes in fibers

J Manley, R Stump, R Petery, S Singh - Physical Review D, 2023 - APS
We propose using an optical fiber-based interferometer to search for scalar ultralight dark
matter (UDM) with particle mass in the range 10-17-10-13 eV/c 2 (10-3-10 Hz). Composed of …