What does PCF stand for?

Another larger core design is the single material photonic crystal fiber or holey fiber (3-5), which is characterized by distribution of air holes in the cladding running through the entire length of the fiber.

The 14 papers here describe such applications as evanescent field tapered fiber optic biosensor fabrication and applications in antibody detection and immobilization, Raman amplification for communication systems, Bragg gratings in high birefringence optical fibers, applications of hollow optical fibers in atom optics, physical modeling of ring lasers, optical power budgets, all-fiber devices for optical networks, optical differential phase shift keying, polymer optical fibers, dissipative solitons in polymer systems, pulses in averaged and dispersion-managed systems, gap solitons in hollow core photonic crystal fibers, multilength optical fiber lasers and semiconductor optical amplifier ring lasers, and the impact of aging on reliability in single-mode silica optical fibers.

95 Hardcover Optical science and engineering TA1815 The second edition of this textbook on the latest technology in fiber optic sensors has been expanded to include new research, such as the application of photonic crystal fibers to fiber optic gyroscopes and the use of fiber optic sensors in minimally invasive medical procedures.