Guest Editorial on Microstructured Fibers

The 21 papers in this special issue on microstructured fibers cover most recent advances in designs, fabrication and applications in the area of photonic crystal fibers (PCF), photonic band-gap fibers (PBGF), nanostructured fibers and hole assisted fibers (HAF), including high speed DWDM transmission over PCF, nonlinear properties and applications, microstructured fiber lasers and amplifiers, nanostructure core fibers and devices, HAF with zero dispersion in the near infrared and visible wavelength regions, fluid-filled solid core PBGF, gas and pressure sensors using PBGF, chirped PCF for guiding sub-100-fs pulses, microstructured fiber gratings, PCF for THz transmission, linear core array microstructured fibers, and polymer microstructured fibers.