All papers have been peer-reviewed. WSOF2008 has been planned as an unprecedented forum for the specialty optical fiber community, in which researchers could meet and discuss new research developments and directions. The need for such a forum relates to the recently experienced revival of the fiber optics research, which was triggered by the demonstration of fibers based on innovative structures and/or materials. These advances enabled the realization of waveguides with unprecedented characteristics and opened up new research and application areas. This volume compiles papers presented at that event.

Optics in Microstructured and Photonic Crystal Fibers	p. 3
Generation of Energetic Wavelength Tunable Femtosecond Pulses in Higher-Order-Mode Fiber	p. 6
Ultraflat Supercontinuum Spectrum Generated with Soft-Glass Photonic Crystal Fibers	p. 8
Highly Nonlinear Fibers in All-Optical Modulators	p. 11
CW Supercontinuum Generation in Photonic Crystal Fibres with Two Zero-Dispersion Wavelengths	p. 15
High Power Fibre-Integrated Supercontinuum Sources	p. 19
High-Speed Fiber Switches	p. 23
The Acousto-Optic Effect in Microstructured Optical Fibers	p. 26
Nanoparticles Doped Liquid Crystal Filled Photonic Bandgap Fibers	p. 29
Successful Fiber Sensing Technologies and Hot Topics for the Near Future	p. 33
Post-Processed Micro-Structured Optical Fibre Sensors	p. 37
Recent Advances on Optical Sensing Using Photonic Crystal Fibers	p. 39
Fiberoptic Applications in Sensors and Telemetry for the Electric Power Industry	p. 43
Optical Intrusion Detection Sensor with Polarization Maintaining Fiber	p. 46
Fabrication and Postprocessing of Ge-Doped Nanoweb Fibers	p. 50
Tailoring the Nonlinear Response of Hollow-Core Photonic Bandgap Fibres	p. 54
New Perspectives in High-Power Optical Fiber-Amplifiers and Solid-State Laser Cooling	p. 58
Applications of Long Period Gratings in Solid Core Photonic Bandgap Fibers	p. 61
Spectral Response of FBG Written in Specialty Single-Mode Fibers	p. 65
Photonic Technologies Integrated into Optical Fibres	p. 69
Silica-Based Highly Nonlinear Fiber as Platform for Optical Processings	p. 73
Efficient S-Rand Amplification Using Depressed-Cladding Erbium-Doped Silica Fibers	p. 77
Beyond Efficient Generation of Multiple Four-Wave Mixing Products	p. 79
Optical Frequency Combs Generated by Four-Wave Mixing in Optical Fibers for Astrophysical Spectrometer Calibration and Metrology	p. 83
Optical Fiber Design and Fabrication: Discussion on Recent Developments	p. 87
Holey Fibers with a Limited Number of Air Hole Rings in the Cladding: Design, Fabrication and Application for Some Interferometric Sensing Devices	p. 91
Progress in the Fabrication of the Next-Generation Soft Glass Microstructured Optical Fibers	p. 95
Erbium-Doped Photonic Crystal Fibers: Fabrication and Characterization	p. 99
Long Period Fiber Grating Fabricated by Defocused CO[subscript 2] Laser for Refractive Index Sensing	p. 105
All-Fiber Devices Based on Photonic Crystal Fibers with Integrated Electrodes	p. 109
Gaussian Filtering with Tapered Oil-Filled Photonic Bandgap Fibers	p. 113
Analysis of Mechanical Properties of a Photonic Crystal Fiber Bragg Grating Acousto-Optic Modulator	p. 117
Fiber-Laser-Based Sensor for Measuring Refractive Index and Solute Concentration of Aqueous Solutions	p. 121
Six Degree Freedom Optical Fiber Accelerometer	p. 125
Simple and Temperature-Insensitive Pressure Sensing Based on a Hollow-Core Photonic Crystal Fiber	p. 129
Numerical and Experimental Studies for a High Pressure Photonic Crystal Fiber Based Sensor	p. 133
Effect of Coupling between Fundamental and Cladding Modes on Bending Losses in Single-Polarization Single-Mode Photonic Crystal Fiber	p. 137
Opto-Mechanical Response of a Suspended-Slab-Core Optical Fiber	p. 141
Simulation Study of Deposition Parameters for Elliptical-Shaped Preforms by VAD for Polarization-Maintaining Fibers	p. 145
Modeling Radiation Losses in Microstructured Optical Fibers for Sensing Applications	p. 149
Evaporation in Water-Core Photonic Crystal Fibers	p. 152
Theoretical and Experimental Study of Supercontinuum Generation in a Water-Core PCF	p. 155
Spontaneous Raman Scattering in Optical Fiber: Experimental Measurement	p. 159
Design and Simulation for Ultra High Soliton Pulse Compression through Photonic Crystal Fiber	p. 163
Complete List of Papers Presented at WSOF2008	p. 167
Author Index	p. 173
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