Since the invention and further development of lasers in the 1960s, photonics has grown
into a field that permeates virtually every aspect of modern life. As photonics deals with the …

Optical fibers have transformed our lives. Not only do they act as the pipeline through which
information is transmitted around the globe, but they are also critical components in a …

The well-developed preform-to-fiber thermal drawing technique owns the benefit to maintain
the cross-section architecture and obtain an individual micro-scale strand of fiber with the …

Originally developed for metrology, optical frequency combs are becoming increasingly
pervasive in a wider range of research topics including optical communications …

Raman scattering provides a convenient mechanism to generate or amplify light at
wavelengths where gain is not otherwise available. When combined with recent …

Silicon core fibers (SCFs) offer an exciting opportunity to harness the nonlinear functionality
of the semiconductor material within the excellent waveguiding properties of optical fiber …

Novel core fibers have a wide range of applications in optics, as sources, detectors and
nonlinear response media. Optoelectronic, and even electronic device applications are now …

Broadband mid-infrared light sources are highly desired for wide-ranging applications that
span free-space communications to spectroscopy. In recent years, silicon has attracted great …

Reported here is the fabrication of tapered silicon core fibers possessing a nano-spike input
that facilitates their seamless splicing to conventional single mode fibers. A proof-of-concept …

Stimulated Raman amplification is observed for the first time in the silicon core fiber (SCF)
platform. The SCFs were tapered to obtain sub-micrometer core dimensions and low optical …