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Laser Coaxes Silica Microwires to Self Assemble

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SYDNEY and PARIS, Jan. 23, 2013 — Water droplets in which silica nanoparticles are suspended can be carefully controlled with an ultraviolet laser technique that coaxes them to self-assemble into highly uniform nanowires, heralding a new generation of integrated optical devices. Silica microwires are the tiny and as-yet underutilized cousins of optical fibers. If precisely manufactured, these hairlike slivers of silica could enable applications and technology not currently possible with comparatively bulky optical fiber. The novel manufacturing technique developed by an international team of researchers from the...Read full article

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    Published: January 2013
    Glossary
    cladding
    The low-refractive-index material that surrounds the core of an optical fiber to contain core light while protecting against surface contaminant scattering. In all-glass fibers, the cladding is glass. In plastic-clad silica fibers, the plastic cladding also may serve as the coating.
    nano
    An SI prefix meaning one billionth (10-9). Nano can also be used to indicate the study of atoms, molecules and other structures and particles on the nanometer scale. Nano-optics (also referred to as nanophotonics), for example, is the study of how light and light-matter interactions behave on the nanometer scale. See nanophotonics.
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