Publication Date:
1999-09-08
Description:
The confinement of light within a hollow core (a large air hole) in a silica-air photonic crystal fiber is demonstrated. Only certain wavelength bands are confined and guided down the fiber, each band corresponding to the presence of a full two-dimensional band gap in the photonic crystal cladding. Single-mode vacuum waveguides have a multitude of potential applications from ultrahigh-power transmission to the guiding of cold atoms.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Cregan -- Mangan -- Knight -- Birks -- Russell -- Roberts -- Allan -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1999 Sep 3;285(5433):1537-1539.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Optoelectronics Group, University of Bath, Claverton Down, Bath BA2 7AY, UK. Defence Evaluation and Research Agency Malvern, St. Andrews Road, Malvern, Worcs WR14 7HR, UK. Corning Incorporated, Corning, New York 14831, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10477511" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
