Ever looked at your room and felt like something small was missing, maybe a warm touch, a soft glow, or a gentle fragrance? A large glass candle might be the one simple thing that brings both beauty ...

To clean tall glass or hurricane candle holders, warm the wax by melting in a double boiler, scrape it out, then clean the glass as normal with soap.

We demonstrate an extruded fluorozirconate microstructured fibre with large mode area, loss of 3 dB/m at 4 mum and negligible excess loss relative to a corresponding unstructured fibre.

Using a bit of mounting adhesive (you could use hot glue or E6000, too), Wöckinger glued the candleholders together and then rested the globe light in the crevice of the top holder.