Emerging optical fibers: New fiber materials and structures

Author

Monro, T.M. ; Afshar, S.V. ; Ebendorff-Heidepriem, H. ; Zhang, W.Q. ; Ruan, Y.

Author_Institution

Centre of Expertise in Photonics, Univ. of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia

fYear

2009

fDate

2-4 June 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

Progress in fiber design, fabrication and post-processing will be presented as well as recent advances including fibers with nanoscale structure, record fiber nonlinearity and developments in chemical and biological sensing.

Keywords

biosensors; chemical sensors; fibre optic sensors; nanophotonics; nonlinear optics; optical fibre fabrication; biological sensing; chemical sensing; fiber design; fiber fabrication; fiber materials; fiber nonlinearity; fiber structures; nanoscale structure; optical fiber; Bismuth; Glass; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber devices; Optical fiber sensors; Optical fiber testing; Optical fibers; Optical materials; Propagation losses; Silicon compounds; (060.2310) Fiber optics and optical communications : Fiber optics; (060.2370) Fiber optics and optical communications : Fiber optics sensor; (160.4236) Materials : Nanomaterials; (190.4370) Nonlinear optics, fibers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2009 and 2009 Conference on Quantum electronics and Laser Science Conference. CLEO/QELS 2009. Conference on

Conference_Location

Baltimore, MD

Print_ISBN

978-1-55752-869-8

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-55752-869-8

Type

conf

Filename

5225751