Researchers developed a hollow optomechanical device made of
fused silica glass, through which fluids and gases could flow.
Researchers precisely measured the rapid transformation of
a fused silica glass into stishovite using SLAC's X-ray laser, the Linac Coherent Light Source.
Han and postdoctoral researcher Guigen Liu achieved the results by attaching a small silicon pillar to the tip of
the fused silica glass typically used in fiber optics.
Faccio and his colleagues created the event horizons in a two - centimeter - long section of
fused silica glass, a medium in which intense laser pulses can locally perturb the refractive index, or speed of light passing through the material.
Not exact matches
One patent is for a technique that
fuses two different cuts of sapphire together, while the other technique
fuses sapphire to
glass made of quartz or
silica.