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 and a width of and is many meters long. The optical attenuation is measured as . Such attenuation outperforms that of conventional planar waveguides by several orders of magnitude.
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