Fabrication of optical fibre nanowires and their optical and mechanical characterisation

Brambilla, Gilberto; Xu, Fei; Feng, Xian

doi:10.1049/el:20060611

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“…The most common way of fabricating such a tapered fiber is by heating and stretching a section of standard optical fiber in a flame. [19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36] The flame can either be stationary, 24,28,33 brushed, [18][19][20][21]23,25,29,31,[34][35][36] or one can use a simulated flame brush, [26][27]32 which relies on a stationary flame but oscillating stages. Most flame setups use either an oxy-butane 33,34 or oxy-hydrogen torch.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Contributed Review: Optical micro- and nanofiber pulling rig

Ward¹,

Maimaiti

Le³

et al. 2014

Review of Scientific Instruments

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We review the method of producing adiabatic optical micro-and nanofibers using a hydrogen/oxygen flame brushing technique. The flame is scanned along the fiber, which is being simultaneously stretched by two translation stages. The tapered fiber fabrication is reproducible and yields highly adiabatic tapers with either exponential or linear profiles. Details regarding the setup of the flame brushing rig and the various parameters used are presented. Information available from the literature is compiled and further details that are necessary to have a functioning pulling rig are included. This should enable the reader to fabricate various taper profiles, while achieving adiabatic transmission of ~ 99% for fundamental mode propagation. Using this rig, transmissions ranging from 85-95% for higher order modes in an optical nanofiber have been obtained.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Contributed Review: Optical micro- and nanofiber pulling rig

Ward¹,

Maimaiti

Le³

et al. 2014

Review of Scientific Instruments

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“…For the core exposed to water, large peaks measuring > 100 nm in height and several microns across the surface suggest that impurities from the water have been deposited onto the core. The darkest areas in the phase image show up on the topology to be slightly lower than the surrounding bulk, which may also be an indication of surface damage such as micro-fracturing [34]. …”

Section: Silica Exposed-core Fibresmentioning

confidence: 99%

Optical Fibres for Distributed Corrosion Sensing - Architecture and Characterisation

Kostecki

Ebendorff-Heidepriem

Warren‐Smith

et al. 2013

KEM

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This paper summarises recent work conducted on the development of exposed core microstructured optical fibres for distributed corrosion sensing. Most recently, exposed-core fibres have been fabricated in silica glass, which is known to be reliable under a range of processing and service environments. We characterise the stability of these new silica fibres when exposed to some typical sensing and storage environments. We show the background loss to be the best achieved to date for exposed-core fibres, while the transmission properties are up to ~2 orders of magnitude better than for the previously reported exposed-core fibres produced in soft glass. This provides a more robust fibre platform for corrosion sensing conditions and opens up new opportunities for distributed optical fibre sensors requiring long-term application in harsh environments.

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“…Interest in OMFs and related sensors has continuously grown, as the result of a publication in Nature in December 2003 showing that low-loss OMFs and nanofibres can be manufactured with a simple two-step process [1]. Even though the propagation loss of OMFs fabricated by this "selfmodulated taper-drawing" technique [1] was significantly higher than that recorded later in samples manufactured by the "flame-brushing" method [2][3][4][5][6], it was low enough to initiate research in a wide range of fields, delivering a large quantity of OMF devices.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%