A photonic crystal fiber is an optical fiber which obtains its waveguide properties not from a spatially varying glass composition but from an arrangement of very tiny and closely spaced air holes which go through the whole length of fiber. There are also so-called photonic bandgap fibers with a totally different guiding mechanism, based on a photonic bandgap of the cladding region. The latter mechanism even allows guidance in a hollow core, such that most of the power propagates in the central hole. Such air-guiding hollow-core photonic crystal fibers can have a very low nonlinearity and a high damage threshold.
Related Journals of Photonic crystal fiber
Research & Reviews: Journal of Pure and Applied Physics, Astrophysics & Aerospace Technology, New Crystal Structures, Journal of Synthetic Crystals, Progress in Crystal Growth and Characterization, Journal of Crystal Growth, Photonic Network Communications, Photonics Society of Polnad, Photonics Spectra.
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