The year 2009 marks the tenth anniversary of the first report of white-light supercontinuum generation in photonic crystal fibre. This result had a tremendous impact on the field of nonlinear fibre optics and continues to open up new horizons in photonic science. Here we provide a concise and critical summary of the current state of nonlinear optics in photonic crystal fibre, identifying some of the most important and interesting recent developments in the field. We also discuss several emerging research directions and point out links with other areas of physics that are now becoming apparent.
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J.M.D. thanks the Institut Universitaire de France for support. J.R.T. is a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award holder.
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Dudley, J., Taylor, J. Ten years of nonlinear optics in photonic crystal fibre. Nature Photon 3, 85–90 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphoton.2008.285
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