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This paper reviews the development progress of optical fiber, the producing and application of the specialty optical fiber in the world. Finally it states the leading technology of optical fiber of the world. Specialty optical fibers are series of optical fiber which could satisfy special requirements. Recently, the rapidly growing need from fiber to the home (FTTH), sensors, active optical link, energy conversion and delivery and fiber laser attracts researchers and optical companies to explore more possibilities of optical fiber and some novel specialty optical fibers were invented for the efforts. Bending insensitive optical fiber with the ability of extreme 3 mm bending diameter makes it possible to use the optical fiber as the electric wire in some extremely compact devices. Higher power was achieved in the fiber laser field with the development of rare earth doped fiber. Nanomaterials such as Au particles and ZnO nanostructures were utilized to extend the application in sensors and energy conversion. Pure silica design was commercialized to improve the radiation resistance of sensors based on fiber optics.
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Qi Mo, R&D Manager. He received his M.S degree from Physics and Electronic Faculty of Hubei University, China, in 2008. He has been working in R&D department of Fiberhome Telecommunication Technologies Co. Ltd. His research interests include fabrication of special optical fiber based on PCVD/MCVD, fabrication and characterization of semiconductor and alloy thin-film materials.
Cheng Du, R&D Engineer. He received his M.S degree in Materials Science from China University of Geosciences in 2010. He has been working in R&D department of Fiberhome Telecommunication Technologies Co. Ltd. His research interests include fabrication of special optical fiber based on MCVD/PCVD, fabrication and characterization of expanded graphite and piezoelectric ceramics. Served as national advance research projects leader.
Wei Chen, Ph.D, major in Optoelectronics Science & Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology. Senior R&D Engineer, Manager of Fiber R&D Department. Since 2001, he has been working in Fiberhome Telecommunication Technologies Co. Ltd. His research interests include the following fields, such as photonic crystal fibers, novelty high power fiber lasers, dispersion compensation fibers and novelty functional materials. His recent work has been dedicated to the National Basic Research Program of China (973 Program) and the National High Technology Research and Development Program of China (863 Program). He has gained the First awards of science and technology progress of Hubei Province in 2009 and the second awards of science and technology progress of Hubei Province in 2005. He has released more than 30 technical publications and 16 invention patents.
Yili Ke, R&D Engineer of Fiberhome Telecommunication Technologies Co. Ltd. With a B.S from Wuhan University of Technology, he earned the M.S degree in Materials Science and Engineering from Wuhan University of Technology. His research interests include the process and waveguide design of specialty fiber, and he was involved in the National Basic Research Program of China (973 Program) and the National High Technology Research and Development Program of China (863 Program).
Tao Zhang, R&D Engineer. He has been working in R&D department of Fiberhome Telecommunication Technologies Co. Ltd. His research interests include fabrication of special optical fiber based on MCVD/PCVD.
Rushan Chen, R&D engineer of Accelink Technologies Co. Ltd. With a B.S degree from Hubei University, she earned the M.S degree in Materials Science from Hubei University. Her research interests include the deposition of quantum well and structure design of laser diode based on InP, TEM and SEM analysis of semiconductor materials. She is also familiar with the process of laser diode and photodiode, and wafer scribing of semiconductor material, such as InP, GaAs.
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Mo, Q., Du, C., Chen, W. et al. Review on developments of novel specialty fibers: performance, application and process. Front. Optoelectron. 7, 338–347 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12200-014-0441-3
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