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ArticleNature communications2021

Laser nano-filament explosion for enabling open-grating sensing in optical fibre.

Keivan Mahmoud Aghdami, Abdullah Rahnama, Erden Ertorer, Peter R Herman

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Article in Nature communications, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

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5 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Review
  2. 25 nm-Feature, 10Nature communications · 2025
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  4. Ultrafast Laser Processing for High-Aspect-Ratio Structures.Nanomaterials (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Keivan Mahmoud Aghdami *Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto, 10 King's College Rd., Toronto, ON, M5S 3G4, Canada. k_aghdami@pnu.ac.ir.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2724-713X
Abdullah Rahnama *Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto, 10 King's College Rd., Toronto, ON, M5S 3G4, Canada. abdullah.rahnama@mail.utoronto.ca.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1272-3890
Erden ErtorerDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto, 10 King's College Rd., Toronto, ON, M5S 3G4, Canada.
Peter R HermanDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto, 10 King's College Rd., Toronto, ON, M5S 3G4, Canada.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9157-8259

Funding

Gouvernement du Canada | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (Conseil de Recherches en Sciences Naturelles et en Génie du Canada) CREAT 484907-16Gouvernement du Canada | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (Conseil de Recherches en Sciences Naturelles et en Génie du Canada) STPGP 521526-18
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Embedding strong photonic stopbands into traditional optical fibre that can directly access and sense the outside environment is challenging, relying on tedious nano-processing steps that result in fragile thinned fibre. Ultrashort-pulsed laser filaments have recently provided a non-contact means of opening high-aspect ratio nano-holes inside of bulk transparent glasses. This method has been extended here to optical fibre, resulting in high density arrays of laser filamented holes penetrating transversely through the silica cladding and guiding core to provide high refractive index contrast Bragg gratings in the telecommunication band. The point-by-point fabrication was combined with post-chemical etching to engineer strong photonic stopbands directly inside of the compact and flexible fibre. Fibre Bragg gratings with sharply resolved π-shifts are presented for high resolution refractive index sensing from [Formula: see text] = 1 to 1.67 as the nano-holes were readily wetted and filled with various solvents and oils through an intact fibre cladding.

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PMID34732710
PMCPMC8566495

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