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Modeling the fabrication of hollow fibers: capillary drawing

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In this article, a method for modeling the fabrication of small-scale hollow glass capillaries is developed based on an asymptotic analysis of the Navier-Stokes equations, which yields a simple closed-form solution for this problem.
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A method for modeling the fabrication of small-scale hollow glass capillaries is developed. The model is based on an asymptotic analysis of the Navier-Stokes equations, which yields a simple closed-form solution for this problem. We demonstrate the validity of this approach using experimental data and use it to make predictions for a range of regimes of interest for the development of microstructured optical fiber technology.

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Overview of novel integrated optical ring resonator bio/chemical sensors

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Photonic Band Gap Guidance in Optical Fibers

TL;DR: A fundamentally different type of optical waveguide structure is demonstrated, in which light is confined to the vicinity of a low-index region by a two-dimensional photonic band gap crystal.
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Handbook of glass properties

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors estimate the properties of commercial and industrial glass with respect to the following properties: Viscosity, Elastic Properties, and Microhardness, Refractive Index and Dispersion.
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Large mode area photonic crystal fibre

TL;DR: In this article, a monomode optical fiber with a core diameter equal to approximately 50 free-space wavelengths has been developed, which can guide only a single mode, no matter how large the fiber diameter.
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Holey optical fibers: an efficient modal model

TL;DR: In this article, a new model for light propagation in holey optical fibers is developed in which the transverse index profile and the modal field are decomposed using different orthogonal functions.
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