Editors' Picks Collection: Optical Fiber

To honor its 40th Anniversary, the editors of Optics Letters selected articles from a variety of topic areas that reflect the progression of each area over the journal's history. Below is a collection of articles in the area of Optical Fiber.

Note that this selection of articles is not meant to be exhaustive but authoritative, showing that significant contributions were made and continue to be made in this area.


  1. The soliton laser

    L. F. Mollenauer and R. H. Stolen

    Opt. Letters 9(1) 13-15 (1984)

  2. Theory of the soliton self-frequency shift

    J. P. Gordon

    Opt. Letters 11(10) 662-664 (1986)

  3. Random walk of coherently amplified solitons in optical fiber transmission

    J. P. Gordon and H. A. Haus

    Opt. Letters 11(10) 665-667 (1986)

  4. Self-organized phase-matched harmonic generation in optical fibers

    R. H. Stolen and H. W. K. Tom

    Opt. Letters 12(8) 585-587 (1987)

  5. High-gain erbium-doped traveling-wave fiber amplifier

    E. Desurvire, J. R. Simpson, and P. C. Becker

    Opt. Letters 12(11) 888-890 (1987)

  6. Formation of Bragg gratings in optical fibers by a transverse holographic method

    G. Meltz, W. W. Morey, and W. H. Glenn

    Opt. Letters 14(15) 823-825 (1989)

  7. Stable fiber-source gyroscopes

    K. A. Fesler, M. J. F. Digonnet, B. Y. Kim, and H. J. Shaw

    Opt. Letters 15(22) 1321-1323 (1990)

  8. Phase noise in photonic communications systems using linear amplifiers

    J. P. Gordon and L. F. Mollenauer

    Opt. Letters 15(23) 1351-1353 (1990)

  9. Large second-order nonlinearity in poled fused silica

    R. A. Myers, N. Mukherjee, and S. R. J. Brueck

    Opt. Letters 16(22) 1732-1734 (1991)

  10. Soliton pulse compression in dispersion-decreasing fiber

    S. V. Chernikov, E. M. Dianov, D. J. Richardson, and D. N. Payne

    Opt. Letters 18(7) 476-478 (1993)

  11. Er3+:Yb3+-codoped fiber distributed-feedback laser

    J. T. Kringlebotn, J.-L. Archambault, L. Reekie, and D. N. Payne

    Opt. Letters 19(24) 2101-2103 (1994)

  12. Optical fiber long-period grating sensors

    Vikram Bhatia and Ashish M. Vengsarkar

    Opt. Letters 21(9) 692-694 (1996)

  13. All-silica single-mode optical fiber with photonic crystal cladding

    J. C. Knight, T. A. Birks, P. St. J. Russell, and D. M. Atkin

    Opt. Letters 21(19) 1547-1549 (1996)

  14. Writing waveguides in glass with a femtosecond laser

    K. M. Davis, K. Miura, N. Sugimoto, and K. Hirao

    Opt. Letters 21(21) 1729-1731 (1996)

  15. Endlessly single-mode photonic crystal fiber

    T. A. Birks, J. C. Knight, and P. St. J. Russell

    Opt. Letters 22(13) 961-963 (1997)

  16. Visible continuum generation in air-silica microstructure optical fibers with anomalous dispersion at 800 nm

    Jinendra K. Ranka, Robert S. Windeler, and Andrew J. Stentz

    Opt. Letters 25(1) 25-27 (2000)

  17. Single-mode operation of a coiled multimode fiber amplifier

    Jeffrey P. Koplow, Dahv A. V. Kliner, and Lew Goldberg

    Opt. Letters 25(7) 442-444 (2000)

  18. Highly birefringent photonic crystal fibers

    A. Ortigosa-Blanch, J. C. Knight, W. J. Wadsworth, J. Arriaga, B. J. Mangan, T. A. Birks, and P. St. J. Russell

    Opt. Letters 25(18) 1325-1327 (2000)

  19. Ultrahigh-resolution optical coherence tomography using continuum generation in an air-silica microstructure optical fiber

    I. Hartl, X. D. Li, C. Chudoba, R. K. Ghanta, T. H. Ko, J. G. Fujimoto, J. K. Ranka, and R. S. Windeler

    Opt. Letters 26(9) 608-610 (2001)