Recent applications of photonic crystal fibres

The microstructure in photonic crystal fibre permits low-loss guidance of light both in solid glass and in air. The resulting improved control over light-matter interactions is permitting studies of, for example, intense nonlinear phonon-photon interactions, efficient generation of broad-band supercontinuum light, precisely controlled propulsion and guidance of small particles, plasmonic effects in metallic nanowire arrays, and massively enhanced nonlinear gas-laser interactions