Honorable Mention

Category: Most Unusual

Chris Hensley

FE-SEM: Zeiss(1550)-Clark

SEM image of a hollow-core photonic band-gap fiber with a core that has been “compromised” by 100-fs pulses. At sufficiently high intensities nonlinear absorption in the silica glass produces a microexplosion that permanently damages the region.

Applied Physics
Advisor         Alexander Gaeta