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Nature Materials 3, 85 - 86 (2004)
doi:10.1038/nmat1065

Photonics: Shrinking optical fibres

Peter Domachuk1 and Benjamin J. Eggleton1

  1. ARC Centre of Excellence for Ultrahigh-bandwidth Devices for Optical Systems (CUDOS), School of Physics, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales 2006, Australia. e-mail: domachuk@physics.usyd.edu.au; e-mail: egg@physics.usyd.edu.au


Optical fibres: great for long-haul telecommunications, but can the same concept be used to 'conduct' light on the microscopic scale? Recent research would indicate not only that we can, but that it is a superior solution.

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