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The demonstration of an in-fibre semiconductor photodetector with gigahertz bandwidth bodes well for the future development of hybrid fibre optoelectronics.

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Figure 1: Optoelectronic photonic crystal fibre with a coaxial semiconductor junction.

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  1. Markus A. Schmidt is a visiting scientist at the Centre for Plasmonics and Metamaterials at Imperial College London, South Kensington campus, London SW7 2AZ, UK,

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Schmidt, M. Fibres embrace optoelectronics. Nature Photon 6, 143–145 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphoton.2012.25

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