Quantum Optics Applications of Hollow-Core Optical Fibers
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Optics and Lasers".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (10 July 2021) | Viewed by 349
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Interests: numerical methods for electromagnetics; photonic crystals; fiber optics; integrated optics; plasmonics; sensing; solar energy harvesting; nano-antennas; MEMS; opto-mechanics
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Dear Colleagues,
With the recent advances in fiber sensing techniques, and the related demands for accurate, lightweight, cheap, flexible, and robust components, the use of hollow-core fibers, in optical science and engineering, has been steadily increasing. These fibers can guide light in air so that it can interact with liquid or gaseous media infiltrated inside the core, opening the way to a wide variety of classical and quantum approaches to exploit interactions between radiation and matter in a controlled and tailored environment.
Hollow-core fibers can also withstand very high temperatures, allowing strong beam power for high-energy interactions, as well as microkelvin temperatures where spontaneous spatial atomic ordering emerges in gaseous media, similar to that of a crystal. In these conditions, fiber design and beam modal shape can control long-range interactions and collective atomic scattering, achieving superradiant emission and allowing the experimental study of novel physical phenomena. Further novel approaches are constantly being uncovered by investigation in a field that is presently at the leading edge of fiber optics research.
This Special Issue is dedicated to the most recent progress and emerging novel applications of hollow-core fibers in optics and photonics, with a special emphasis on quantum applications in general and quantum sensing in particular, and to the associated advances in fabrication, measurement, and modeling techniques.
Dr. Lorenzo Rosa
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- hollow-core optical fibers
- photonic-crystal fibers
- photonic bandgap fibers
- tube lattice fibers
- inhibited coupling fibers
- negative curvature fibers
- quantum gas-phase effects
- quantum sensing
- materials and fabrication techniques
- novel characterization techniques
- modeling and simulation
