Abstract

We report the first long, uniform, optical fibers in which visible light is guided in a single mode by metallic reflection. We describe the fabrication, experiment and characterization of these metallic optical fibers and compare them with theoretical calculations.

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History
Original Manuscript: January 22, 2008
Manuscript Accepted: March 18, 2008
Revised Manuscript: March 18, 2008
Published: April 14, 2008

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Author Affiliations

J. C. Knight

Centre for Photonics and Photonic Materials

David Bird, Alan George

Centre for Photonics and Photonic Materials, Department of Physics, University of Bath, Bath BA2 7AY, UK

Boris Kuhlmey

Centre for Ultrahigh-bandwidth Devices for Optical Systems (CUDOS), The University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia

Jing Hou

College of Optoelectronics Science and Engineering, National University of Defense Technology

Stefan Maier

Experimental Solid State Group, Physics Department, Imperial College, London SW7 2AZ, UK

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