Feature issue introduction: Multimaterial and Multifunctional Optical Fibers

Fabien Sorin, John Ballato, Lei Wei, Xiaoting Jia, and Daniel Milanese

Opt. Mater. Express 7(6), 1906-1908 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Ytterbium-doped oxyfluoride nano-glass-ceramic fibers for laser cooling

Kummara Venkata Krishnaiah, Yannick Ledemi, Cécile Genevois, Emmanuel Veron, Xavier Sauvage, Steeve Morency, Elton Soares de Lima Filho, Galina Nemova, Mathieu Allix, Younes Messaddeq, and Raman Kashyap

Opt. Mater. Express 7(6), 1980-1994 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Material properties of tapered crystalline silicon core fibers

Y. Franz, A. F. J. Runge, H. Ren, N. Healy, K. Ignatyev, M. Jones, T. Hawkins, J. Ballato, U. J. Gibson, and A. C. Peacock

Opt. Mater. Express 7(6), 2055-2061 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Tellurite-based core-clad dual-electrodes composite fibers

C. Strutynski, F. Desevedavy, A. Lemière, J.-C. Jules, G. Gadret, T. Cardinal, F. Smektala, and S. Danto

Opt. Mater. Express 7(5), 1503-1508 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Scintillation and photoluminescence property of SiO₂ cladding YAP:Ce optical fiber via modified rod-in-tube method

Qiang Guo, Xinxin Sun, Wenyun Luo, Jianxiang Wen, Fufei Pang, Chengbo Mou, Gang-ding Peng, and Tingyun Wang

Opt. Mater. Express 7(5), 1525-1534 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Laser structuring, stress modification and Bragg grating inscription in silicon-core glass fibers

Michael Fokine, Antreas Theodosiou, Seunghan Song, Thomas Hawkins, John Ballato, Kyriacos Kalli, and Ursula J. Gibson

Opt. Mater. Express 7(5), 1589-1597 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Glass-clad semiconductor germanium fiber for high-speed photodetecting applications

Kunyang Sui, Xian Feng, Yubin Hou, Qian Zhang, Shuxian Qi, Yingying Wang, and Pu Wang

Opt. Mater. Express 7(4), 1211-1219 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Effects of metallic coatings on the thermal sensitivity of optical fiber sensors at cryogenic temperatures

Federico Scurti, John McGarrahan, and Justin Schwartz

Opt. Mater. Express 7(6), 1754-1766 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Room temperature ammonia sensor using side-polished optical fiber coated with graphene/polyaniline nanocomposite

A. L. Khalaf, F. S. Mohamad, N. Abdul Rahman, H. N. Lim, S. Paiman, N. A. Yusof, M. A. Mahdi, and M. H. Yaacob

Opt. Mater. Express 7(6), 1858-1870 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Implementing Bragg mirrors in a hollow-core photonic-crystal fiber

Jeremy Flannery, Golam Bappi, Vineeth Bhaskara, Omar Alshehri, and Michal Bajcsy

Opt. Mater. Express 7(4), 1198-1210 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Analysis of nanogap-induced spectral blue-shifts of plasmons on fiber-integrated gold, silver and copper nanowires

Ron Fatobene Ando, Alessandro Tuniz, Jens Kobelke, and Markus A. Schmidt

Opt. Mater. Express 7(5), 1486-1495 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF