Photonic polymers:a new class of photonic wire structure from intersecting polymer-blend microspheres
Optics Letters, Vol. 27, Issue 8, pp. 610-612 (2002)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/OL.27.000610
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Abstract
We report a new kind of photonic wire structure made from the sequential attachment of polymer-blend microparticles. Using a linear quadrupole to manipulate the particles in space, we are able to take advantage of a modified surface structure in the blend particle to actively assemble particles in programmable two- or three-dimensional architectures. Strong resonance features in fluorescence are observed near the intersection of linked spheres that cannot be interpreted with a two-dimensional (equatorial plane) model. Three-dimensional ray optics calculations show long-lived periodic trajectories that propagate in great circles linked at an angle with respect to the plane containing the sphere centers.
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OCIS Codes
(160.5470) Materials : Polymers
(350.3950) Other areas of optics : Micro-optics
Citation
S. M. Mahurin, A. Mehta, M. D. Barnes, B. Hathorn, B. G. Sumpter, D. W. Noid, and K. Runge, "Photonic polymers:a new class of photonic wire structure from intersecting polymer-blend microspheres," Opt. Lett. 27, 610-612 (2002)
http://www.opticsinfobase.org/ol/abstract.cfm?URI=ol-27-8-610
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