We report the fabrication of what are believed to be the first microstructured optical fibers
with uniformly oriented elliptical holes. A high degree of hole ellipticity is achieved with a …

This chapter outlines three methods for cutting mPOFs as well as giving details of
techniques that have been used to characterise mPOFs through accurate imaging of their …

We present experimental results on supercontinuum generation in a highly birefringent
microstructured fiber. We show that such a fiber offers clear advantages for continuum …

In this letter, we present the fabrication of a microstructured fiber with high birefringence
suitable for nonlinear applications. The fiber has been fabricated adapting the stack and …

Over the past few years microstructured fibers have shown potential for many practical
applications and permitted significant progress in various domains such as nonlinear optics …

We discuss the phase and group modal birefringence in photonic crystal fibres (PCFs) with
an elongated core. Owing to large form birefringence, these two types of birefringence in …

In this paper, polarization properties and propagation characteristics of polymer photonic
crystal fibres with elliptical core and non-hexagonal symmetry structure are investigated by …

We show that the spectral interferometry method and the lateral point-force method used up
to now to measure spectral dependence of the group and the phase modal birefringence in …

Confinement losses in highly birefringent rectangular-lattice photonic-crystal fibers
(RLPCFs) are investigated by the multipole method. The losses are strongly polarization …

We establish rigorous necessary analytical conditions for the existence of single-polarization
single-mode (SPSM) bandwidths in index-guided microstructured waveguides (such as …