特种光纤及器件在光纤通信、光纤传感、光纤激光等领域有非常广泛的应用.近年来，上海大学特种光纤与光接入网省部共建重点实验室将纳米技术与特种光纤及器件相结合，开展了特种纳米半导体掺杂光纤、抗辐射光纤、包层模谐振光纤以及量子点光纤放大器等方面的研究，并探索了它们在宽光谱光放大、特种光纤传感器等方面的应用.

Specialty optical fibers and components have wide applications in the fields of optical fiber communications and sensors. Recently, in the Key Laboratory of Specialty Fiber Optics and Optical Access Networks, Shanghai University, various novel specialty optical fibers by combining nanotechnology and optical fiber technology have been studied and proposed, for example, nanosemiconductor doped fiber, irradiation resistant fiber, cladding mode resonant fiber and semiconductor quantum dot fiber amplifier, etc. The applications of wideband fiber amplifier and specialty fiber sensors have also been investigated