Introduction

摘要

This proceedings volume is from Micro-structured and Specialty Optical Fibres VII, held on Monday - Friday 19-23 April 2021, at the SPIE Optics+Optoelectronics Digital Forum. The conference could not be held in person in Prague, Czech Republic, as originally planned, due to epidemiologic measures adopted against spreading of COVID-19 pandemic. The conference was collocated with the special events of the virtual lab tour in the optical fibre technology laboratory at the Institute of Photonics and Electronics of the Czech Academy of Sciences and notably the live events of the Optical Fiber Technology Workshop followed by Topical Discussion Forum for the Optical Fiber Technology Sessions and that were organized on Thursday 22 April 2022.