NEWT1-R-UVC-SEOFs_fig1

Figure 1: (Top) An E. coli bacterial lawn on 8x10cm Lysogeny broth Agar plates after eight hours of exposure to an unmodified optical fiber (left) and a UV-C SEOF connected to a UV 265 nm LED (right). (Bottom) The SiO2 enabled SEOFs achieve a zone of inhibition of more than 3cm in tests of two different bacterial cultures