This book focuses on the basic understanding of specialty optical fibers, their applications in mid-IR light generation, and cutting-edge research in the field. The book provides all the basic knowledge about specialty optical fibers and their characteristics, including dispersion, losses, propagation of modes, and so forth. Finally, the technologies based on optical fibers and their applications in all prospective areas of research are discussed.

Features:

• Provides an introduction to the history of the specialty optical fibers, and technologies based on specialty optical fibers
• Explores specific applications of mid-IR supercontinuum generation in specialty optical fibers
• Discusses the fabrication of specialty optical fiber-based photonic devices
• Reviews the integration of nanotechnology with specialty optical fibers
• Details future prospectives of specialty optical fiber-based photonic devices

This book is aimed at graduate students and researchers in photonics, optics, physics, and photonic crystal fibers.