An optical micro/nanofiber (MNF) is a quasi-one-dimensional free-standing optical
waveguide with a diameter close to or less than the vacuum wavelength of light. Combining …

The potential to use single-crystal sapphire optical fiber as an alternative to silica optical
fibers for sensing in high-temperature, high-pressure, and chemically aggressive harsh …

Second half of the XX century was marked by a rapid development of sapphire shaped
crystal growth technologies, driven by the demands for fast, low-cost, and technologically …

Over the last 37 years, particular interest has been directed towards exploring the
characteristics of the optical environment for sensing, giving rise to what would now be one …

Single-crystal sapphire fibers have been grown with the laser-heated pedestal-growth
method with losses as low as 0.3 dB/m at 2.94 µm. With the incorporation of a computer …

The use of lasers in medical practice has dramatically increased over the years. Lasers and
modern optics have largely been unexplored in medical science. This contributed work is …

The literature on melt growth of single crystalline fibers is reviewed. The paper introduces in
the characteristic features and wide field of advanced applications of micro single crystals in …

We report the fabrication and high-temperature characteristics of Bragg gratings in single-
crystal sapphire fibres inscribed by infrared femtosecond laser pulses. For stable read-out of …

Single-crystal sapphire fibers are produced by the laser heated pedestal growth technique.
The fibers have attenuation coefficients of less than 2 dB/m at the Er: YAG laser wavelength …

Fiber Crystal Growth from the Melt reviews the growth, modelling, characterization and
application of single crystal fibers are reviewed. Due to their very large length-to-diameter …