Planar Waveguides and other Confined Geometries: Theory, Technology, Production, and Novel Applicati

1. Radiation from a semi-infinite unflanged planar dielectric waveguide.- 2. Optimizing second harmonic generation in a circular cylindrical waveguide with embedded regions of nonlinear susceptibility in periodic array along the axis.- 3. Nanoplasmonic Metal-Insulator-Metal Waveguides.- 4. Fiber Laser Photonics.- 5. Fabrication of channel waveguides in chalcogenide glass films by a focused laser beam.- 6. Laser Processed Photonic Devices.- 7. Coupling to planar and strip waveguides.- 8. Nonlinear light propagation in laser-written waveguide arrays.- 9. Stable Power Compression with Efficient Relativistic UV Channel Formation in Cluster Targets.- 10. Fiber Optical 3D Shape Sensing.- 11. Applications of polarization maintaining fibers.