Abstract
Floley fibers,1-3, i.e., fibers of a new type with a cladding having a structure of a two-dimensional (often periodic) array of closely packed capillaries, allow many important problems of fiber optics to be solved and many ideas of the physics of photonic crystals to be implemented. Such fibers support single-mode waveguiding within a broad spectral range, allowing radiation energy losses to be considerably reduced in this regime.2,3 Holey fibers also hold much promise for nonlinear-optical applications.4-7 In particular, the high localization degree of light field in the core of a holey fiber suggests the way to considerably improve the efficiency of nonlinear-optical interactions.5
© 2001 Optical Society of America
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