LEADER 03801nam 22008653a 450 001 9910346692003321 005 20250203235435.0 010 $a9783039210893 010 $a3039210890 024 8 $a10.3390/books978-3-03921-089-3 035 $a(CKB)4920000000094749 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/49502 035 $a(ScCtBLL)39766143-e2a9-4a39-aa91-704489782609 035 $a(OCoLC)1126098957 035 $a(oapen)doab49502 035 $a(EXLCZ)994920000000094749 100 $a20250203i20192019 uu 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurmn|---annan 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 00$aHollow core optical fibers$fWalter Belardi 210 $cMDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute$d2019 210 1$aBasel, Switzerland :$cMDPI,$d2019. 215 $a1 electronic resource (182 p.) 311 08$a9783039210886 311 08$a3039210882 330 $aThe possibility of guiding light in air has fascinated optical scientists and engineers since the dawn of optical fiber technology. In the last few years, hollow core optical fibers have been attracting the attention of an expanding worldwide research community, furthering the design, fabrication and device implementation of specialty optical fibers. Hollow core optical fibers are entering almost any specific application field of optics from medicine to security; from telecommunication to industrial processing; from instrumentation to biology. In parallel to the increased number of applications, major advances are still being made on the optimization of hollow core fiber designs and on the study of its underlying guiding properties, as well as in the use of different materials and fabrication techniques, which, in turn, are providing even more ways of exploitation of this technology and new technical challenges. This Special Issue of Fibers rides the wave of this increasing interest in the field of hollow core optical fibers by providing an overview of the recent progress in this field as well as an updated and indicative sample of current research activities worldwide. 606 $aHistory of engineering and technology$2bicssc 610 $afiber filters 610 $aaddictive manufacturing 610 $amicrostructured optical fiber splicing 610 $ahollow core fibers 610 $aTHz 610 $ahollow core fiber 610 $anegative curvature fibers 610 $abeam delivery 610 $afiber loss 610 $aCO2 lasers 610 $afiber design and fabrication 610 $aoptical fiber 610 $aultrafast lasers 610 $achalcogenide glass 610 $awaveguide 610 $amultiphoton fluorescence spectroscopy 610 $agas photonics 610 $afabrication 610 $ahollow-core antiresonant fiber 610 $aphotonic crystal fibers 610 $aanti-resonant fibers 610 $ahollow-core photonic crystal fiber 610 $amicrostructured optical fibers 610 $acarbon dioxide laser 610 $afiber optics 610 $amicrostructured fibers 610 $ahollow optical fiber 610 $aendoscopic laser applications 610 $aterahertz 610 $aoptical fiber sensors 610 $amid-IR 610 $aanti-resonant 610 $ahollow-core fibers 610 $amodal fiber properties 610 $a3D printing 610 $aRaman lasers 610 $anumerical modeling 615 7$aHistory of engineering and technology 700 $aBelardi$b Walter$0131289 801 0$bScCtBLL 801 1$bScCtBLL 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910346692003321 996 $aHollow core optical fibers$93020272 997 $aUNINA