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A Nanobar-Supported Lipid Bilayer System for the Study of Membrane Curvature Sensing Proteins in vitro
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Linear and nonlinear guidance in an ultralow loss planar glass membrane
1Photonic and Photonic Material Group, Department of Physics, University of Bath, BA2 7AY, UK. pysnaj@bath.ac.uk
Optics Letters
|October 4, 2005
Abstract:
We describe the fabrication and characterization of a free-standing silica glass membrane waveguide formed using fiber fabrication processes. The membrane has a thickness of 0.6 microm and a width of 60 microm and is many meters long. The optical attenuation is measured as 0.4 dB/m. Such attenuation outperforms that of conventional planar waveguides by several orders of magnitude.
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