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March 20th, 2003

Spider silk delivers finest optical fibres

Abstract:
Delicate threads of spider's silk are about to solve a major problem in photonics: how to make hollow optical fibres narrow enough to carry light beams around the fastest nanoscale optical circuits.

Source:
New Scientist

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