Fiber and their applications
Different types of optical fiber and their applications are presented at a glance in this section.
Application
| Application | Optical Fiber |
| Telecommunication | Multimode fiber (MMF) |
| Single-mode fiber (SMF) | |
| Dispersion shifted fiber (DSF) | |
| Polarisation maintaining fiber (PMF) | |
| Mid infrared fiber | |
| Ge doped fiber for Bragg grating filting | |
| Plastic optical fibers | |
| Multicore fiber | |
| Supercontinuum sources | Photonic crystal fiber (PCF) |
| Nonlinear material filled fiber | |
| Micro structured optical fiber (MOF) | |
| Chalcogenide step index fiber | |
| Sensing application | Multimode fiber |
| Solid core photonic crystal fiber (SCPCF) | |
| Hollow core photonic crystal fiber (HCPCF) | |
| Polarisation maintaining fiber (PM) | |
| Ge doped fiber for Bragg grating sensor | |
| D-shaped fiber | |
| Bare fiber | |
| No core fiber | |
| Fiber laser | Erbium doped fiber (EDF) |
| Rare-earth-doped optical fiber | |
| Double clad fiber | |
| Fiber amplifier | Erbium doped fiber amplifier (EDFA) |
| Ytterbium doped amplifier fiber | |
| Erbium-ytterbium doped fiber | |
| Double clad fiber | |
