The increasing fields of applications for modern optical fibers present great challenges to the
material properties and the processing technology of fiber optics. This paper gives an …

Holographic optical tweezers (HOT) hold great promise for many applications in
biophotonics, allowing the creation and measurement of minuscule forces on biomolecules …

Photonic crystal fibers (PCFs) with hybrid guiding mechanisms have undergone substantial
development in recent years. Due to the co-existence of index-guiding and photonic …

This chapter outlines three methods for cutting mPOFs as well as giving details of
techniques that have been used to characterise mPOFs through accurate imaging of their …

The fabrication, materials, properties and applications of microstructured polymer optical
fibers are reviewed. Microstructured polymer optical fibers formed the basis of extensive …

The efficient and accurate fabrication of Microstructured optical fibers (MOFs) requires a
practical understanding of the 'draw process' beyond what is achievable by trial and error …

In drawing microstructured optical fibers (MOFs), the cross-sectional hole structure, including
holes' relative size and shape, in a finished fiber drawn down from a preform can be different …

We report the fabrication of a highly multi-mode square core jacketed air-clad fiber with a top-
hat near-field intensity profile. Using this fiber to deliver Q-switched pulses at 1 μm we have …

A large-core air-clad photonic crystal fiber-based sensing structure is described, which is
sensitive to refractive index. The sensing head is based on multimodal interference, and …

We successfully used CdSe/ZnS quantum dots (QDs) as a dopant within a
polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA) matrix. This doped material was used in the fabrication of a …