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Excitation of surface waves on conducting materials provides a near resistance-free interface capable of a material glissade either by plasmon forces or by optical beam tractors. Analogous to an ice hockey rin...
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3D Silica Lithography for Future Optical Fiber Fabrication
Conventional silica fiber fabrication using chemical vapor deposition (CVD) has been a successful optical fiber fabrication platform, producing the bulk of commercial optical fibers and fiber amplifiers that f...
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3D Silica Lithography for Future Optical Fiber Fabrication
Conventional silica fiber fabrication using chemical vapor deposition (CVD) has been a successful optical fiber fabrication platform, producing the bulk of commercial optical fibers and fiber amplifiers that f...
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Water photonics, non-linearity, and anomalously large electro-optic coefficients in poled silica fibers
A review of the literature offers an explanation for the large anomalous electro-optic (e.o.) effect reported by Fujiwara et al. in 1994. It is based on the large e.o. coefficient of ordered water at an interf...
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The special features of photonic crystal fibres (PCFs) are achieved by their air hole structures. PCF structure is determined and formed by its origin preform design and drawing process. Therefore, structure f...
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Early detection of environmental disruption, unintentional or otherwise, is increasingly desired to ensure hazard minimization in many settings. Here, using a field-portable, smartphone fluorimeter to assess w...
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A large dynamic index measurement range (n = 1 to n = 1.7) using surface plasmon resonance (SPR) shifts was demonstrated with a ZnSe prism at 632.8 nm, limited by the available high index liquid hosts. In contras...
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A comparative study for image quality and radiation dose of a cone beam computed tomography scanner and a multislice computed tomography scanner for paranasal sinus imaging
To evaluate image quality and radiation dose of a state of the art cone beam computed tomography (CBCT) system and a multislice computed tomography (MSCT) system in patients with sinonasal poliposis.
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Hybrid Baseline Localization for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles
This paper presents a hybrid baseline (HBL) navigation method for autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs). In this approach, a floating acoustic transponder is used to augment moving short baseline (MSBL) naviga...
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Lab-in-a-Microfibre
The laboratory-in-a-fibre was originally envisaged around structured optical fibres and their two dimensional, potentially three-dimensional (3-D), variation in structure they enabled. In contrast to D-shaped ...
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Global Consensus Is a Dream, but Twitter Is Real: Simulating a Sustainable Development Goals Summit Through Interdisciplinary Classroom Politics and Negotiation by Social Media
Rio+20 saw commitment from the international community to develop Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to shape the global efforts towards sustainable development. As part of an interdisciplinary curriculum in...
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Open AccessRoom temperature sol-gel fabrication and functionalization for sensor applications
The structure and physical properties of a thin titania sol-gel layer prepared on silicon and silica surfaces were examined. Spectroscopic (FTIR, UV-VIS spectroscopy), refractive index (ellipsometry) and micro...
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Open AccessAdvances and new applications using the acousto-optic effect in optical fibers
This work presents a short review of the current research on the acousto-optic mechanism applied to optical fibers. The role of the piezoelectric element and the acousto-optic modulator in the excitation of fl...
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Manufacturing complex composites and structures using incompatible materials is central to next-generation technologies. In photonics, silica offers passivity, low loss and robustness, making it the ideal mate...
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Consigned to the shadows of telecommunications, optical sensing has often taken a back seat in a young person’s mind when considering the importance of photonics, or optics, to the advancement of the society a...
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Open AccessGrating writing in structured optical fibers
Grating writing in structured optical fibers is reviewed. Various laser sources have been used including UV and near IR nanosecond and femtosecond lasers, each enabling different material processing regimes. T...
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Air-clad fibres for astronomical instrumentation: focal-ratio degradation
Focal-ratio degradation (FRD) of light launched into high-numerical aperture (NA) single-annulus all-silica undoped air-clad fibres at an NA of 0.54 is reported. The measured annular light distribution remaine...
