[HTML][HTML] The past, present and future of photonic glasses: A review in homage to the United Nations International Year of glass 2022

W Blanc, YG Choi, X Zhang, M Nalin… - Progress in Materials …, 2023‏ - Elsevier
Since the invention and further development of lasers in the 1960s, photonics has grown
into a field that permeates virtually every aspect of modern life. As photonics deals with the …

[HTML][HTML] Thermally drawn advanced functional fibers: New frontier of flexible electronics

W Yan, C Dong, Y **ang, S Jiang, A Leber, G Loke… - Materials Today, 2020‏ - Elsevier
Electronic devices are evolving from rigid devices into flexible and stretchable structures,
enabling a seamless integration of electronics into our everyday lives. The integration of a …

Advanced multimaterial electronic and optoelectronic fibers and textiles

W Yan, A Page, T Nguyen‐Dang, Y Qu… - Advanced …, 2019‏ - Wiley Online Library
The ability to integrate complex electronic and optoelectronic functionalities within soft and
thin fibers is one of today's key advanced manufacturing challenges. Multifunctional and …

Roadmap on all-optical processing

P Minzioni, C Lacava, T Tanabe, J Dong, X Hu… - Journal of …, 2019‏ - iopscience.iop.org
The ability to process optical signals without passing into the electrical domain has always
attracted the attention of the research community. Processing photons by photons unfolds …

Self-powered multifunctional sensing based on super-elastic fibers by soluble-core thermal drawing

M Chen, Z Wang, Q Zhang, Z Wang, W Liu… - Nature …, 2021‏ - nature.com
The well-developed preform-to-fiber thermal drawing technique owns the benefit to maintain
the cross-section architecture and obtain an individual micro-scale strand of fiber with the …

Infrared fibers

G Tao, H Ebendorff-Heidepriem… - Advances in Optics …, 2015‏ - opg.optica.org
Infrared (IR) fibers offer a versatile approach to guiding and manipulating light in the IR
spectrum, which is becoming increasingly more prominent in a variety of scientific …

Hybrid photonic-crystal fiber

C Markos, JC Travers, A Abdolvand, BJ Eggleton… - Reviews of Modern …, 2017‏ - APS
This article offers an extensive survey of results obtained using hybrid photonic-crystal fibers
(PCFs) which constitute one of the most active research fields in contemporary fiber optics …

Perspective: Molten core optical fiber fabrication—A route to new materials and applications

J Ballato, AC Peacock - APL Photonics, 2018‏ - pubs.aip.org
Optical fibers have transformed our lives. Not only do they act as the pipeline through which
information is transmitted around the globe, but they are also critical components in a …

CO2 laser-induced directional recrystallization to produce single crystal silicon-core optical fibers with low loss

N Healy, M Fokine, Y Franz, T Hawkins… - Advanced Optical …, 2016‏ - eprints.soton.ac.uk
Reduced losses in silicon-core fibers are obtained using CO 2 laser directional
recrystallization of the core. Single crystals with aspect ratios up to 1500: 1 are reported …

Rethinking optical fiber: new demands, old glasses

J Ballato, P Dragic - Journal of the American Ceramic Society, 2013‏ - Wiley Online Library
From a materials perspective optical fibers are victims of their own success. The advent of
the laser, 50 yr ago, coupled with an insatiable demand for information enabled by light …