This book is a comprehensive contributed volume that aims to describe and explain the design, fabrication, operating characteristics, and specific applications of the most popular and useful types of specialty optical fibers. These "specialty fibers include any kind of optical fiber that has been architecturally manipulated to diverge from a conventional structure. For instance, metal-coated fibers can be utilized for bandwidth improvement, and hollow core fibers offer more controllable dispersion for sensitive medical procedures.
Applications for these specialty fibers abound in the biomedical, sensors, and industrial fields, as well as in more traditional communications capacities. This book will act as a specialty fiber "guided tour, hosted by the top names in the discipline. The globally renowned editors, Drs. Mendez and Morse, have extensive experience in research, academia, and industry.
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Table of Contents
CH 1 Introduction / CH 2 Applications and Market Opportunities / CH 3 Light-Guiding Fundamentals and Fiber Design / CH 4 Overview of Materials and Fabrication Technologies / CH 5 Optical Fiber Coatings / CH 6 Single Mode Fibers for Communications / CH 7 Specialty Single Mode Fibers / CH 8 Rare-Earth Doped Fibers / CH 9 Polarization Maintaining FibersCH 10 Photosensitive Fibers / CH 11 Hollow Core Fibers / CH 12 Silica Nanowires and Subwavelength-Diameter Fibers / CH 13 Chiral Fibers / CH 14 Mid-IR and Infrared Fibers / CH 15 Hermetic Carbon-Coated Fibers
CH 16 Metal-Coated Fibers / CH 17 Elliptical Core and D-Shape Fibers / CH 18 Multimode, Large Core and Plastic Clad Fibers / CH 19 Tapered Fibers and Specialty Fiber Micro-Components / CH 20 Liquid Core Fibers / CH 21 Polymer Optical Fibers / CH 22 Sapphire Fibers / CH 23 Optical Fibers for Industrial laser Applications / CH 24 Optical Fibers for Industrial Laser Applications / CH 25 Mechanical Strength and Reliability of Glass Fibers
