It appears as if Terry Donaghe <tdonaghe@yahoo.com> wrote:
|I remember reading an article a couple of months ago about a new
|technology some guys at MIT were working on that involved mirrors that
|were nearly 100% reflective. One of the things they built using their
|new ideas was a fiber optic cable that was coated on the inside with
|this kind of mirror.
|
|Does anyone know what I'm talking about and does anyone have links to
|somewhere where I can find out more...
|
|I have no idea where I read this or if it's even true.
A Dielectric Omnidirectional Reflector
Yoel Fink, Joshua N. Winn, Shanhui Fan, Chiping Chen, Jurgen Michel, John D.
Joannopoulos, and Edwin L. Thomas
Science 1998 November 27; 282: 1679-1682.
|Any help is greatly appreciated!
Ron Kean <ronkean@juno.com> then appears to have discussed mirror types,
adding:
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|I don't have any info on a new mirror from MIT.
See for instance <URL:http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/nr/1998/mirror.html>.