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The most fascinating and challenging element in the recent development of photonic crystal fibres is without doubt the potential of fabricating fibres in which light is guided in fibre cores having a lower effective refractive index than the surrounding cladding material. The attraction is that this was in contrast to any former fibre, and that such a discovery, therefore, inevitably would lead to new design and application possibilities. The basic motivating element behind this is also the fundamental curiosity of human beings to try to open up new areas, and in this case simply to “guide light in a manner nobody else had done before”. This fundamental driving force may be seen as a very academic task, but at the same time it has the highly practical aspect of containing the potential of creating new fibres and components with radically different properties compared to the existing possibilities.
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Bjarklev, A., Broeng, J., Bjarklev, A.S. (2003). Low-Index Core Fibres — The True Photonic Bandgap Approach. In: Photonic Crystal Fibres. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-0475-7_6
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