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Nonlinear Optics and Solitons in Photonic Crystal Fibres

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The fibre optics revolution in communication technologies followed the 1950’s demonstration of the glass fibres with dielectric cladding [1]. Transmission applications of fibre optics have become a dominant modern day technology not least because nonlinearities present in – or introduced into – glass and enhanced by the tight focusing of the fibre modes allow for numerous light processing techniques, such as amplification, frequency conversion, pulse shaping, and many others. For these reasons, and because of the rich fundamental physics behind it, nonlinear fibre optics has become a blossoming discipline in its own right [1]. The 1990’s witnessed another important development in fibre optics. Once again it came from a new approach to the fibre cladding, comprising a periodic pattern of air holes separated by glass membranes forming a photonic crystal structure [2, 3]. This prompted the name Photonic Crystal Fibres (PCFs). The fascinating story behind the invention of PCF and research into various fibre designs can be found, e.g., in [4]. Our aim here is to review the role played by PCFs in nonlinear and quantum optics, which is becoming the mainstream of the PCF related research and applications. Our focus will be on the areas where PCFs have brought to life effects and applications which were previously difficult, impossible to observe or simply not thought about.

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Skryabin, D.V., Wadsworth, W.J. (2010). Nonlinear Optics and Solitons in Photonic Crystal Fibres. In: Denz, C., Flach, S., Kivshar, Y. (eds) Nonlinearities in Periodic Structures and Metamaterials. Springer Series in Optical Sciences, vol 150. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02066-7_3

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