| Preface | p. vii |
| Colour Plates | p. xiii |
| List of Figures | p. xix |
| List of Tables | p. xxiii |
| List of Symbols and Acronyms | p. xxv |
| History and Applications of Polymer Fibres and Microstructured Fibres | p. 1 |
| Early Stages Of Polymer Fibre Development | p. 1 |
| Fabrication Considerations For Optical Fibres | p. 3 |
| Index Contrast Between Core And Cladding | p. 6 |
| Physical Properties Of Polymers | p. 7 |
| Current Applications Of Conventional Polymer Fibres | p. 8 |
| Illumination | p. 8 |
| Sensing | p. 8 |
| High Speed Data Transmission | p. 8 |
| History And Overview Of Microstructured Fibres | p. 10 |
| References | p. 16 |
| Concepts in Waveguide Theory | p. 21 |
| Modes | p. 21 |
| Degeneracy, Polarisation And Birefringence | p. 22 |
| Weak Guidance | p. 24 |
| Counting Modes | p. 24 |
| Effective Indices And Cutoff | p. 26 |
| Coupling Light In And Out | p. 27 |
| Numerical Aperture | p. 28 |
| Mode Field Diameter Or Spot Size | p. 29 |
| Bandwidth And Dispersion | p. 30 |
| Intra- And Inter-Modal Dispersion | p. 31 |
| Group Velocity And Chromatic Dispersion | p. 32 |
| Power Mixing In Multimode Fibres | p. 32 |
| Equilibrium | p. 33 |
| Over- And Under-Filled Launch Conditions | p. 34 |
| Conventional Guidance Mechanisms | p. 35 |
| References | p. 37 |
| Guiding Concepts in Microstructured Fibres | p. 39 |
| Photonic Bandgap Guidance | p. 39 |
| Confinement Loss | p. 45 |
| Counting Modes In Microstructured Fibres | p. 46 |
| Endlessly Single-Mode Fibre | p. 48 |
| Manipulating Dispersion | p. 49 |
| References | p. 50 |
| The Modelling and Design of mPOFs | p. 53 |
| Nomenclature | p. 54 |
| Algorithms | p. 57 |
| Conventional Approaches | p. 57 |
| Nonconventional Approaches | p. 59 |
| Available Software | p. 63 |
| Power Mixing Theory | p. 63 |
| Deterministic and Stochastic Coupling | p. 64 |
| Comparing Two Common Perturbations | p. 66 |
| Equilibrium Length And Power Distribution | p. 67 |
| Example Designs For Various Fibre Attributes | p. 68 |
| Mode Number And Spacing | p. 68 |
| Capture And Coupling Efficiency | p. 69 |
| Mode Profile | p. 69 |
| Dispersion | p. 71 |
| Polarisation | p. 72 |
| Automated Design | p. 73 |
| References | p. 77 |
| Fabrication of mPOFs | p. 83 |
| Preform Production | p. 84 |
| Bragg Preforms | p. 84 |
| Capillary Stacking | p. 84 |
| Drilling Monolithic Preforms | p. 86 |
| Extrusion | p. 89 |
| Injection Moulding | p. 91 |
| Casting | p. 92 |
| Fibre Drawing And Furnace Design | p. 94 |
| Convective Heat Transfer | p. 95 |
| Radiative Heat Transfer | p. 99 |
| Monitoring And Control | p. 102 |
| Quality Of Fabricated MPOF | p. 103 |
| Material | p. 103 |
| Structure | p. 104 |
| References | p. 106 |
| Effects of Drawing on the Microstructure | p. 111 |
| Scaling Analysis For Fibre Drawing | p. 111 |
| Isothermal Analysis Of Hole Deformation | p. 115 |
| Hole-Size Changes | p. 115 |
| Hole-Shape Changes | p. 117 |
| Approximate Analysis Of Hole Behaviour | p. 120 |
| Nonisothermal Analysis Of Hole Deformation | p. 121 |
| Convective Heat Transfer | p. 122 |
| Radiative Heat Transfer | p. 125 |
| Pressure Modified Hole Deformation | p. 126 |
| References | p. 128 |
| The Handling and Characterisation of mPOFs | p. 131 |
| Cutting And Handling | p. 131 |
| Melt Cutting | p. 131 |
| Laser Cutting | p. 132 |
| Hot-Knife Cutting | p. 133 |
| Fibre Characterisation | p. 136 |
| Structural Characterisation | p. 136 |
| Single- And Multimode Guiding | p. 137 |
| Near- And Far-Fields | p. 138 |
| Numerical Aperture | p. 140 |
| Transmission Loss | p. 141 |
| Bandwidth | p. 148 |
| Birefringence | p. 152 |
| References | p. 158 |
| Hollow-Core mPOF | p. 165 |
| Introduction | p. 165 |
| Fabrication | p. 166 |
| Transmission Properties | p. 168 |
| Issues Affecting The Performance Of Bandgap Fibres | p. 171 |
| Importance of structural dimensions | p. 171 |
| Role Of Surface Modes | p. 171 |
| Ultimate Loss Limits For Hollow-Core MPOF | p. 172 |
| Applications Of Photonic Bandgap Fibres | p. 176 |
| Challenges And Future Directions | p. 176 |
| References | p. 177 |
| Graded-Index mPOFs | p. 181 |
| Material Dispersion | p. 181 |
| Intermodal Dispersion | p. 183 |
| The Effect of the Graded-Index Microstructure | p. 183 |
| Experimental Characterisation Of GImPOFs | p. 188 |
| Challenges And Future Directions | p. 189 |
| References | p. 190 |
| Bragg and Long Period Gratings in mPOF | p. 193 |
| Introduction | p. 193 |
| Fibre Bragg Gratings | p. 197 |
| FBGs In Microstructured Fibres | p. 197 |
| FBGs In Polymer Fibres | p. 197 |
| FBGs In Microstructured Polymer Fibres | p. 198 |
| Long Period Gratings | p. 202 |
| LPG In Microstructured Fibres | p. 202 |
| LPGs In Polymer Fibres | p. 203 |
| Challenges And Future Directions | p. 207 |
| References | p. 208 |
| Material Additives for mPOF | p. 213 |
| Introduction | p. 213 |
| Doping Methods | p. 216 |
| Solution Doping | p. 216 |
| Nanoparticle Doping | p. 220 |
| Fluorescence Measurements | p. 221 |
| An MPOF Amplifier And Laser | p. 222 |
| Challenges And Future Directions | p. 225 |
| References | p. 225 |
| Index | p. 229 |
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