1. Optical fiber-based devices and applications

   • Perry Ping Shum
   • Jonathan C. Knight
   • Dora Juan Juan Hu

   Editorial 05 January 2010 Pages: 1 - 1

2. What do you see in photonic crystal fibers?

   • Jonathan C. Knight

   Review Article 07 January 2010 Pages: 2 - 8

3. Temperature stabilized and broadband fiber waveplate fabricated with a birefringent photonic crystal fiber

   • Xiaopeng Dong
   • Jiajian Hao
   • Xiaozhen Wang

   Research Article 13 January 2010 Pages: 9 - 12

4. Brillouin distributed time-domain sensing in optical fibers: state of the art and perspectives

   • Luc Thévenaz

   Review Article 22 January 2010 Pages: 13 - 21

5. Physical mechanism of “slow light” in stimulated Brillouin scattering

   • Valeri I. Kovalev
   • Robert G. Harrison
   • Nadezhda E. Kotova

   Research Article 22 January 2010 Pages: 22 - 32

6. Novel performance of fiber lasers: tunable operation in visible range

   • S. A. Babin

   Review Article 11 January 2010 Pages: 33 - 37

7. Recent progress on ultrafast/ultrashort/frequency-stabilized erbium-doped fiber lasers and their applications

   • Masataka Nakazawa

   Review Article 13 January 2010 Pages: 38 - 44

8. Gain and ultrafast optical switching in PMMA optical fibers and films doped with luminescent conjugated polymers and oligomers

   • Ana Charas
   • Ana L. Mendonça
   • Jorge Morgado

   Research Article 22 January 2010 Pages: 45 - 53

9. Brief introduction to optical microfibers and nanofibers

   • Limin Tong

   Review Article 22 January 2010 Pages: 54 - 60

10. Optical fiber microwires and nanowires manufactured by modified flame brushing technique: properties and applications

    • G. Brambilla
    • Y. Jung
    • F. Renna

    Review Article 14 January 2010 Pages: 61 - 66

11. Consideration of chiral optical fibres

    • Alexander Argyros
    • Mark Straton
    • Leon Poladian

    Research Article 14 January 2010 Pages: 67 - 70

12. Tunable fiber Bragg grating filters realized by chirp rate tuning with a cantilever beam

    • Xinyong Dong
    • Perry Ping Shum

    Research Article 13 January 2010 Pages: 71 - 77

13. FBG-based smart bed system for healthcare applications

    • Jianzhong Hao
    • Maniyeri Jayachandran
    • Zhaohui Cai

    Research Article 07 January 2010 Pages: 78 - 83

14. Progress in creating second-order optical nonlinearity in silicate glasses and waveguides through thermal poling

    • Simon Fleming
    • Honglin An

    Review Article 10 December 2009 Pages: 84 - 91

15. Design of photosensitive microstructured polymer optical fibers

    • Hwa-Yaw Tam
    • Kei-Chun Davis Cheng
    • Ming-Leung Vincent Tse

    Research Article 16 December 2009 Pages: 92 - 98

16. Impact of polymer material properties on microstructured optical fibres

    • Maryanne C. J. Large
    • Alexander Argyros

    Research Article 05 January 2010 Pages: 99 - 102

17. Liquid crystal applications in photonics

    • Vladimir G. Chigrinov

    Research Article 15 January 2010 Pages: 103 - 107

18. Erratum to: Optical fiber-based devices and applications

    • Perry Ping Shum
    • Jonathan C. Knight
    • Dora Juan Juan Hu

    Erratum 05 February 2010 Pages: 108 - 108