Photonic Crystal Fibers
Abstract
Photonic crystal fibers guide light by corralling it within a periodic array of microscopic air holes that run along the entire fiber length. Largely through their ability to overcome the limitations of conventional fiber optics-for example, by permitting low-loss guidance of light in a hollow core-these fibers are proving to have a multitude of important technological and scientific applications spanning many disciplines. The result has been a renaissance of interest in optical fibers and their uses.
- Publication:
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Science
- Pub Date:
- January 2003
- DOI:
- 10.1126/science.1079280
- Bibcode:
- 2003Sci...299..358R
- Keywords:
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- PHYSICS