This book focuses on the basic understanding of specialty optical fibers, their applications in mid-IR light generation, and cutting-edge research in the field. The book provides all the basic knowledge about specialty optical fibers and their characteristics, including dispersion, losses, propagation of modes, and so forth. Finally, the technologies based on optical fibers and their applications in all prospective areas of research are discussed.

Features:



Provides an introduction to the history of the specialty optical fibers, and technologies based on specialty optical fibers
Explores specific applications of mid-IR supercontinuum generation in specialty optical fibers
Discusses the fabrication of specialty optical fiber-based photonic devices
Reviews the integration of nanotechnology with specialty optical fibers
Details future prospectives of specialty optical fiber-based photonic devices

This book is aimed at graduate students and researchers in photonics, optics, physics, and photonic crystal fibers.