This article offers a comprehensive survey of results obtained for solitons and complex
nonlinear wave patterns supported by nonlinear lattices (NLs), which represent a spatially …

Liquid crystals (LCs) are ubiquitous in display technologies. The orientational ordering in the
nematic phase of LCs gives rise to structural anisotropy, the ability to form topological …

An interesting feature of microstructured optical fibers (MOFs) is that their properties can be
adjusted by filling or coating of the holes. Some applications require selective filling or …

Liquid crystals occupy an important niche in nonlinear optics as a result of their unique
physical and optical properties. Besides their broadband birefringence and transparency …

Fibre materials span a broad range of applications ranging from simple textile yarns to
complex modern fibre-optic communication systems. Throughout their history, a key premise …

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 …

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 …

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 …

We develop a method for the fabrication of functional microstructured optical fibers (MOFs)
by selectively filling the air holes with liquid phase materials, where we utilize the …

Tunable light switch using a photonic crystal fiber filled with nematic liquid crystal is
demonstrated. The original band-gap-guiding fiber structure was transformed to a total …