Particle & Particle Systems Characterization, Vol.33, No.7, 352-357, 2016
Engineering the Light-Transport Mean Free Path in Silica Photonic Glasses
A photonic glass composed of mono-disperse silica spheres is stepwise infiltrated with additional conformal layers of silica, by using chemical vapor deposition. It is shown that for a small infiltration degree, the resonant features of the glass are preserved. The possibility of modifying the light-transport mean free path in the sample is further discussed, with an approximately tenfold increase being reported.
Keywords:chemical infiltration;photonic glasses;scattering media;silica particles;transport properties;white paints