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This book is intended to provide an overview of the state-of-the-art in specialty photonic crystal fiber technology and its multiple applications, combined with an optimistic outlook to what lies ahead. It comprises six original research papers and one review from different leading research institutions worldwide.

Research & information: general --- stimulated Raman scattering --- hollow-core photonic crystal fibers --- fiber lasers --- gas lasers --- hollow-core photonic crystal fiber --- soliton --- photoionization --- dispersive wave --- chalcogenide glasses --- 3D printing --- mid-infrared fibers --- photonic crystal fibers --- photonic bandgap fiber --- resonance --- dispersion management --- supercontinuum generation --- photonic crystal fiber --- polarization modulation instability --- ANDi fiber --- liquid-filled PCF --- hollow core fiber --- optical waveguide design --- mid-infrared beam delivery --- hollow-core fiber --- fiber gas laser --- n/a

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The 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.

fiber filters --- n/a --- addictive manufacturing --- microstructured optical fiber splicing --- hollow core fibers --- THz --- hollow core fiber --- negative curvature fibers --- beam delivery --- fiber loss --- CO2 lasers --- fiber design and fabrication --- optical fiber --- ultrafast lasers --- chalcogenide glass --- waveguide --- multiphoton fluorescence spectroscopy --- gas photonics --- fabrication --- hollow-core antiresonant fiber --- photonic crystal fibers --- anti-resonant fibers --- hollow-core photonic crystal fiber --- microstructured optical fibers --- carbon dioxide laser --- fiber optics --- microstructured fibers --- hollow optical fiber --- endoscopic laser applications --- terahertz --- optical fiber sensors --- mid-IR --- anti-resonant --- hollow-core fibers --- modal fiber properties --- 3D printing --- Raman lasers --- numerical modeling