Postmelting Encapsulation of Glass Microwires for Multipath Light Waveguiding within Phosphate Glasses.

ABSTRACT: Glass waveguides are the fundamental component of advanced photonic circuits and play a pivotal role in diverse applications, including quantum information processing, light generation, imaging, data storage, and sensing platforms. Up to date, the fabrication of glass waveguides relies mainly on demanding chemical processes or on the employment of expensive ultrafast laser equipment. In this work, we demonstrate an advanced, simple, low-temperature, postmelting encapsulation procedure for the development of glass waveguides. Specifically, silver iodide phosphate glass microwires (MWs) are drawn from splat-quenched glasses. These MWs are then incorporated in a controlled manner within transparent silver phosphate glass matrices. The judicious selection of glass compositions ensures that the

SUBMITTER: Konidakis I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11348410 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature