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  1. Bath physicists use photonic crystal fiber to more efficiently create attosecond pulses

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    Tue, 20 Nov 2007

    uses a special hollow-core photonic crystal fiber to send out pulses of light ..... But Benabid's team used a photonic crystal fiber (PCF), which traps light ..... This new way of using photonic crystal fibre has meant that the

  2. Spiral photonic -crystal fiber design is golden

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    Mon, 1 Dec 2008

    Engineers at City University London (London, England) have demonstrated a photonic - crystal fiber (PCF) in which the air holes were laid out in a “golden spiral” (GS)–a pattern governed by a mathematical constant

  1. Photonic -crystal fiber achieves 10 Gbit/s transmission in the visible

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    Thu, 1 Mar 2007

    Increasing demand for broadband services is encouraging researchers to improve the performance of photonic - crystal (PC) fibers, which offer the potential for communication systems with a bandwidth of 260 THz or more, relying on a large spectral

  2. ATTOSCIENCE: Photonic -crystal fiber produces attosecond pulses

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    Tue, 1 Jan 2008

    A team of physicists has reported using a photonic - crystal fiber to manipulate light a million times more efficiently than previously known possible.

  3. Kagome photonic -crystal fiber spans broad wavelength range

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    Mon, 1 Jan 2007

    Applications for hollow-core photonic - crystal fibers (HC-PCFs) continue to proliferate as fabrication processes improve and insertion losses decrease (see www.laserfocusworld

  4. National Science Foundation grants $1.3 million to develop photonic crystal fiber nanosensors

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    Tue, 17 Aug 2004

    2004--Stevens Institute of Technology's Dr. Henry Du and his research team have pioneered work on the integration of photonic crystal fibers (PCFs) with nanoscale technologies that will potentially lead to robust chemical and biological sensing devices

  5. Soft-glass photonic -crystal fiber transmits singlemode, broadband light

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    Thu, 1 Sep 2011

    developed the first soft-glass, hollow-core photonic - crystal fiber to offer singlemode broadband light guidance at ..... and slow-drawing rates—a hollow-core, photonic - crystal fiber from Schott SF6 lead-silicate glass (with a

  6. Photonic crystal fiber yields near-IR solitons

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    Sat, 1 Jan 2000

    infrared solitons in a photonic crystal fiber . Constructed of a long thread ..... forms a two-dimensional photonic crystal that is periodic across the ..... values indicates that the photonic crystal fiber structure should facilitate

  7. Nonlinear Phenomena: Photonic -crystal fiber shifts ultrashort-pulse wavelengths

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    Sun, 1 Jan 2006

    spectral broadening are the normally expected results. Using photonic - crystal fibers (PCFs), however, researchers recently found results ..... of 1.6 and 1.8 µm, respectively (see Fig. 1). Photonic - crystal fibers allow “tailoring” of the dispersion properties

  8. Photonic -crystal fiber supports two modes

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    Sun, 1 May 2005

    Hong Kong Polytechnic University (Hong Kong, China) and Beijing Jiaotong University (Beijing, China), have modeled photonic - crystal fibers (PCFs) that can support two-mode operation over wavelength ranges of 1200 nm (from 600 to 1800 nm).1 Two