Monro, T.Afshar Vahid, S.Zhang, W.Ebendorff-Heidepriem, H.2011-04-132011-04-132010Proceedings of the 15th OptoeElectronics and Communications Conference (OECC2010), held in Sapporo, Japan 5-9 July 2010.9781424467853http://hdl.handle.net/2440/63161We review the properties of optical fibers with extreme nonlinearity. We describe advances in soft glass microstructured fibers, including fabrication and characterisation, generalization of the underpinning nonlinear theory and some novel applications of these fibers.enCopyright IEEE 2010Conference paper00201054280003011117000722-s2.0-7864924581331188Ebendorff-Heidepriem, H. [0000-0002-4877-7770]