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Single-Mode Photonic Band Gap Guidance of Light in Air.
R.F. Cregan,Brian Joseph Mangan,Jonathan Knight,Tim A. Birks,P. St. J. Russell,Peter John Roberts,Douglas C. Allan +6 more
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The confinement of light within a hollow core (a large air hole) in a silica-air photonic crystal fiber is demonstrated and certain wavelength bands are confined and guided down the fiber.Abstract:
The confinement of light within a hollow core (a large air hole) in a silica-air photonic crystal fiber is demonstrated Only certain wavelength bands are confined and guided down the fiber, each band corresponding to the presence of a full two-dimensional band gap in the photonic crystal cladding Single-mode vacuum waveguides have a multitude of potential applications from ultrahigh-power transmission to the guiding of cold atomsread more
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Scanning microscope with multiband illumination and optical component for a scanning microscope with multiband illumination
TL;DR: In this article, an optical component in the illumination path produces at least partly spectrally expanded illumination light and an essentially polarization and wavelength independent beam divider is fixed in both illumination and detection beam paths.
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Glass: The carrier of light—Part II—A brief look into the future of optical fiber
John Ballato,Peter D. Dragic +1 more
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Raman detection of cell proliferation probes with antiresonance-guiding hollow fibers.
Lyubov V. Doronina-Amitonova,Ilya V. Fedotov,Andrei B. Fedotov,Konstantin V. Anokhin,Minglie Hu,Chingyue Wang,Aleksei M. Zheltikov +6 more
TL;DR: Antiresonance-guiding hollow-core fibers are shown to enable highly sensitive detection of cell proliferation probes using Raman scattering within the region where the cellular Raman activity is minimal, thus radically improving the sensitivity of Raman detection of DNA synthesis in cells and offering a powerful tool for fiber-based live-cell imaging.
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A Boundary Integral Equation Method for Photonic Crystal Fibers
TL;DR: A boundary integral equation for the eigenmode of photonic crystal fibers is formulated and numerically solved using the Nyström method, which is very flexible to handle the fiber geometry, and therefore can be applied to photonics crystal fibers with novel refractive index profile and hole geometry.
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All-silica single-mode optical fiber with photonic crystal cladding
TL;DR: The fabrication of a new type of optical waveguide: the photonic crystal fiber that supports a single robust low-loss guided mode over a very broad spectral range of at least 458-1550 nm.
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Endlessly single-mode photonic crystal fiber.
TL;DR: An effective-index model confirms that an all-silica optical fiber made by embedding a central core in a two-dimensional photonic crystal with a micrometer-spaced hexagonal array of air holes can be single mode for any wavelength.
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Hollow metallic and dielectric waveguides for long distance optical transmission and lasers
TL;DR: In this paper, the field configurations and propagation constants of a hollow circular waveguide made of dielectric material or metal for application as an optical waveguide were determined and the increase of attenuation due to curvature of the axis was also determined.
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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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Full 2-D photonic bandgaps in silica/air structures
TL;DR: In this paper, full 2D photonic bandgaps are demonstrated for all polarisations in structures with refractive index contrast as small as that of silica and air, and a new type of optical fiber based on these structures is proposed.