Recent Advances in Hollow-Core Fiber Optics: Design, Fabrication, and Applications

A special issue of Photonics (ISSN 2304-6732).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 10 September 2024 | Viewed by 156

Special Issue Editors


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Optoelectronics Research Centre (ORC), University of Southampton, Southampton, UK
Interests: hollow-core fiber; Fabry–Perot; ultrastablized lasers; microwave photonics

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Photonics Research Center, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Shenzhen Research Institute, Shenzhen 518057, China
Interests: specialty optical fibers; optical devices; optical gas detectors

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

In recent years, hollow-core fibers (HCFs) have emerged as a revolutionary technology, offering a myriad of unique properties such as low latency, low thermal sensitivity, reduced nonlinear effects, and potentially lower losses compared to solid-core fibers due to the fact that HCFs guide light in air/vacuum. In particular, following the groundbreaking achievement of low loss demonstrated by researchers at the University of Southampton (0.17 dB/km), HCFs have garnered significant attention and witnessed remarkable progress.

We are pleased to announce this Special Issue, titled "Recent Advances in Hollow-Core Fiber Optics: Design, Fabrication, and Applications", dedicated to exploring recent developments in HCFs across all aspects of research and development. We invite submissions of original research papers and review articles presenting state-of-the-art advancements, technical breakthroughs, experimental demonstrations, and practical applications. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

  • Novel designs of HCFs;
  • Low-loss HCF fabrications across all wavelengths;
  • HCFs made of soft glasses and polymers;
  • Interconnection between HCFs and traditional solid-core fibers;
  • Characterization and properties of HCFs;
  • Hollow-core fiber-based components;
  • HCFs for high-power delivery systems;
  • Applications of HCFs in gas lasers and gas sensing;
  • Nonlinear effects in HCFs;
  • Microwave photonics utilizing HCFs;
  • HCFs in optical networks;
  • Emerging applications demonstrated with HCFs.

Dr. Meng Ding
Dr. Shoulin Jiang
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • hollow-core fiber optics
  • HCFs for high-power delivery systems
  • applications in HCFs

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