A plasmonic sensor, having at least a substrate, a laser processed active surface area on the said substrate, and a metal coating on the activate surface, where the laser processed surface is fabricated by means of short laser pulses in such a way that in a shallow layer of the surface material, the viscosity is reduced and under the influence of the same pulse, which was used to reduce the viscosity, or a successive incident one or more pulses a self-organized, stochastic nanostructure is formed, which has features smaller than 1 μm. In some implementations, the substrate material is amorphous, such as soda-lime glass or similar. Also disclosed is a slide and/or a slip cover, which are used in microscopy, for forming the active sensor area on top surface of it.

The present invention provides an UV cleaning device of a glass substrate, comprising a lamp box, an UV lamp positioned above inside the lamp box, a transparent shield positioned under the UV lamp, a humidifier positioned under the transparent shield and a power exhaust device under the transparent shield and opposite to the humidifier; in usage, the glass substrate is conveyed to be inside the lamp box, and UV light generated by the UV lamp irradiates on the glass substrate through the shield to clean the glass substrate and a humidity and an oxygen content inside the lamp box are adjusted with the humidifier to make a surface of the glass substrate adsorb one layer of water molecules. The electrons generated as the UV light cleans can be gradually conducted and led out with water molecules to effectively restrain the accumulation of the electrostatic to reduce the phenomenon of electrostatic damage, and meanwhile, the increase of the oxygen content makes the concentration of the activated oxygen atoms increases along with. Accordingly, the result of cleaning the organic objects with the UV light is promoted.

Methods and devices for producing a composite pane having a functional coating are presented. The functional coating is applied to part of a surface of a base pane, and a first pane is cut out from the base pane while introducing a frame-shaped peripheral coating-free region into the functional coating having an inner region that is not adjacent a side edge of the first pane. The surface of the first pane with the functional coating is then bonded via a thermoplastic intermediate layer to a surface of a second pane.

A method of forming a sealed device comprising providing a first substrate having a first surface, providing a second substrate adjacent the first substrate, and forming a weld between an interface of the first substrate and the adjacent second substrate, wherein the weld is characterized by ((σ.sub.tensile stress location)/(σ.sub.interface laser weld))<<1 or <1 and σ.sub.interface laser weld>10 MPa or >1 MPa where σ.sub.tensile stress location is the stress present in the first substrate and σ.sub.interface laser weld is the stress present at the interface. This method may be used to manufacture a variety of different sealed packages.

A method of manufacturing a partially textured glass article that includes (a) providing partially textured mother glass substrate that includes a first main surface and a second main surface which are opposed to each other; (b) irradiating the first main surface of the glass substrate with a laser to form a separating line on the first main surface that defines contour lines and extends from the first main surface to the second main surface dividing the glass article from the glass substrate, the glass article being a size smaller than the mother glass substrate; and (c) separating the partially textured glass article is separated from the mother glass substrate by the separating line. The method allows cutting a large partially textured mother glass substrate, with high precision, into smaller articles of partially textured glass at a requested size.

The method for inscribing a waveguide into a media glass substrate generally has the steps of: relatively moving a femtosecond laser beam along a surface of the media glass substrate while maintaining the focus of the laser beam at a depth of less than the surface, wherein the waveguide has a loss of less than 0.2 dB/cm when measured at a wavelength of light signal propagating in the waveguide during normal use of the waveguide. Particularly, the method can have varying writing parameters according to whether the waveguide is single-mode or multi-mode.

The present disclosure relates to a method of making a lensed connector in which a glass ferrule has holes within the body of the glass ferrule, and the glass ferrule is subsequently processed to form lens structures along the ferrule.

A method for strengthening an edge of a glass laminate including a glass core layer positioned between a first glass clad layer and a second glass clad layer may include forming a channel in the edge of the glass laminate. Sidewalls of the channel may be formed from the first glass clad layer and the second glass clad layer. Glass filler material having a filler coefficient of thermal expansion greater than a core coefficient of thermal expansion may be positioned in the channel. The glass filler material and the sidewalls of the channel may be fused to the second glass clad layer thereby forming an edge cap over the channel. The edge of the glass laminate is under compressive stress after the glass filler material is enclosed in the channel.

A microfabrication method is provided with which it is possible to easily form a fine periodic structure on a surface of any substrate. A glass precursor is applied to a substrate, and the glass precursor is irradiated with short-pulse laser light. By the irradiation with short-pulse laser light, the glass precursor is activated to undergo a thermal reaction, and a fine periodic structure can be easily formed on the surface. Furthermore, by oxidizing the substrate on which the fine periodic structure has been formed, the hue of the surface can be improved while maintaining the fine periodic structure.

When decoating a glass panel (3), a decoating tool (6) with a circular-cylindrical grinding element (8) is used, which element is set to rotate around its axis. In the end face of the grinding element (8) that is used when the active face (9) is decoated, a hole (10) and at least one radial groove (11) are provided. The decoating tool (6) is placed at a spot (A) on the glass panel (3) in a movement (arrow 13) that is oriented at an acute angle to the plane of the glass panel (3), which lies between the ends (B) and (C) of the strip-shaped decoating area (14) and moves first to the one end (B) (arrow 15) and then to the other end (C) (arrow 16) in order to strip coating from the glass panel (3) in the decoating area (14).