Alignment of rod-shaped single-photon emitters driven by line defects in liquid crystals by Pelliser, Laurent, Manceau, Mathieu, Lethiec, Clotilde, Coursault, Delphine, Vezzoli, Stefano, Leménager, Godefroy, Coolen, Laurent, DeVittorio, Massimo, Pisanello, Ferruccio, Carbone, Luigi, Maitre, Agnes, Bramati, Alberto, Lacaze, Emmanuelle

“…Arrays of liquid crystal defects—linear smectic dislocations—are used to trap semiconductor CdSe/CdS dot-in-rods which behave as single-photon emitters. …”
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Development of chemical photonic crystal fiber sensor by Mak, Foo Liang

“…Advancement of the Photonic Crystal Fiber (PCF) since 1995 has increased immense enthusiasm to the research and development industry and many researches has been conducted since then. …”
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A homogenized model for free vibration analysis of finite phononic crystal rods using strain gradient theory by Lou, Jia, Fan, Hui, Zhao, Ou, Du, Jianke

“…While extensive research has been conducted on elastic wave propagation in infinite phononic crystal (PC) rods, practical applications often involve PC rods of finite length. …”
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A functionally arranged phononic crystal rod enabling ultra-wideband vibration attenuation and orderly frequency distillation by Lou, Jia, Fan, Hui, Yang, Jie, Zhang, Aibing, Du, Jianke

“…In this study, a functionally arranged phononic crystal rod, incorporating sub-periodic structures featuring distinct lattice constants, is designed. …”
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Control of ultrafast pulses in a hydrogen-filled hollow-core photonic-crystal fiber by Raman coherence by Belli, F., Travers, J. C., Russell, P. St. J., Abdolvand, Amin

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Photoalignment of liquid crystal in photonic crsytal fiber by using azo dye. by Peck, Yvonne.

“…Photonic Crystal Fibers (PCFs) have emerged to be a new class of optical waveguides, which have attracted considerable attention and interest in recent years. …”
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Loading dynamics of cold atoms into a hollow-core photonic crystal fiber by Wang, Yu, Chai, Shijie, Xin, Mingjie, Leong, Wui Seng, Chen, Zilong, Lan, Shau-Yu

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Polyvinyl alcohol coated photonic crystal optical fiber sensor for humidity measurement by Wong, Wei Chang, Chan, Chi Chiu, Chen, Li Han, Li, Tao, Lee, Kok Xian, Leong, Kam Chew

“…A polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) coated photonic crystal optical fiber (PCF) sensor has been proposed as a relative humidity (RH) sensor. …”
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Miniature photonic crystal optical fiber humidity sensor based on polyvinyl alcohol by Wong, Wei Chang, Chan, Chi Chiu, Li, Tao, Chen, Li Han, Boo, Jia Liang, Lee, Kok Xian, Leong, Kam Chew

“…A compact photonic crystal fiber (PCF) humidity sensor based on modal interference has been proposed by the use of commercial fusion splicer to collapse the holes of PCF to form a Michelson interferometer with cladding mode excitation at the fiber tip. …”
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Ultrasensitive fiber-optic temperature sensor based on cascaded Sagnac interferometers with a nematic liquid crystal film by Fan, Xiaoya, Chen, Hailiang, Zheng, Yu, Liu, Yundong, Chen, Qiang, Zhang, Yingyue, Ma, Mingjian, Du, Huijing, Li, Shuguang, Shum, Perry Ping

“…One of the Sagnac interferometers (SIs) consisted of a panda polarization-maintaining fiber (PMF) as the reference arm, while the other one contained two single-mode patch cables in a ferrule matching sleeve as the sensing arm, where a nematic liquid crystal (NLC) film was infiltrated into the micron-scale gap of the sleeve. …”
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Hollow-core photonic crystal fiber based multifunctional optical system for trapping, position sensing, and detection of fluorescent particles by Shinoj, Vengalathunadakal Kuttinarayanan, Murukeshan, Vadakke Matham

“…We demonstrate a novel multifunctional optical system that is capable of trapping, imaging, position sensing, and fluorescence detection of micrometer-sized fluorescent test particles using hollow-core photonic crystal fiber (HC-PCF). This multifunctional optical system for trapping, position sensing, and fluorescent detection is designed such that a near-IR laser light is used to create an optical trap across a liquid-filled HC-PCF, and a 473 nm laser is employed as a source for fluorescence excitation. …”
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Simultaneous achievement of an ultrashort length and a high extinction ratio polarization splitter based on the dual-core photonic crystal fiber with Ge₂₀Sb₁₅Se₆₅ glass by Chu, Lihua, Liu, Min, Shum, Ping, Fu, Yongbo

“…A polarization splitter based on dual-core photonic crystal fiber with Ge₂₀Sb₁₅Se₆₅ glass is proposed to realize ultrashort length and high extinction ratio simultaneously at the common wavelength of 1.55 µm. …”
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Comparison of specialty optical fiber and conventional fiber for evanescent sensing applications by Nur Dayana Nurbaythi Mohamed Ali.

“…This limited depth of penetration calls for the need for the test materials to be in direct contact with the sensing region that is created on the active sensing device – conventional optical fibers. However, due to the development of technology and the increasing demand for better sensitivity in sensors, the use of alternative fibers, i.e. photonic crystal fibers (PCF), emerge as it has displayed huge potential in being highly sensitive and having the ability to sense analytes in solutions. …”
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Imaging fiber design for medical applications by Zhang, Meng

“…Secondly, it decreases the loss by using periodic microstructures within photonic crystal fibers (PCFs) as well as alternating layers (n1/n2) of dielectrics deposited on a metal film inside the hollow core. …”
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Investigation on liquid crystal based tuning elements for tunable diode laser by Wang, Pin

“…Tunable lasers have a lot of applications ranging from light sources for fiber optic telecommunication system to broadband system. …”
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Cold atoms laboratory in a hollow core fiber by Leong, Wui Seng

“…Cold $^{85}\text{Rb}$ atoms of temperature $\sim$\SI{6}{\micro\kelvin} are loaded into a Kagome type photonic crystal hollow-core fiber (HCF) through an optical trapping beam coupled into the HCF. …”
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Fiber optic technique for determination of moisture content in honey by Mohamad Ibrahim, Nursakinah

“…This thesis presents a critical study on the application of fiber optic technique as a fast and accurate method to determine moisture content in honey based on reflection, transmission and absorption properties in the wavelength between 300nm and 800nm. …”
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Optimizing geometry of extruded PMMA microstructured optical fiber preforms by Sia, Johnathan Seng Hong

“…Photonic crystal fibers are now widely research on its applications due to the special properties. …”
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Effects of scaling and cleaning on the performance of forward osmosis hollow fiber membranes by Arkhangelsky, Elizabeth, Wicaksana, Filicia, Chou, Shuren, Al-Rabiah, Abdulrahman A., Al-Zahrani, Saeed M., Wang, Rong

“…The pore blocking could be a result of the penetration of crystals from the feed solution into the support matrix of the membrane, or the formation of crystals inside the porous support layer. …”
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Monitoring the Wobbe Index of Natural Gas Using Fiber-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy by Sandfort, Vincenz, Trabold, Barbara M., Abdolvand, Amir, Bolwien, Carsten, Russell, Philip St. J., Wöllenstein, Jürgen, Palzer, Stefan

“…This paper compares the performance of two types of hollow-core photonic crystal fiber (PCF), namely photonic bandgap PCF and kagomé-style PCF, and assesses their potential for online determination of the Wobbe index. …”
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