Fabrication of selective injection microstructured optical fibers with a conventional fusion splicer

Xiao, Limin; Jin, Wei; Demokan, M.S.; Ho, Hoi L.; Hoo, Y.L.; Chen, Zhao

doi:10.1364/opex.13.009014

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“…Now, applying sol-gel technique (Bise & Trevor, 2005), any kind of complexity of fabrication can be removed. From the previously published papers (Xiao et al, 2005;Cordeiro et al, 2006b) it is clear that our proposed structures can be interfaced with these existing technologies.…”

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Design and Optimization of Highly Sensitive Photonic Crystal Fiber with Low Confinement Loss for Ethanol Detection

Arif¹,

Asaduzzaman²,

Biddut³

et al. 2016

IJTech

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In this paper, two highly sensitive photonic crystal fiber (PCF) structures with microstructure core and cladding have been demonstrated for Ethanol sensing. The microstructure core of both proposed PCFs is designed with supplementary holes in an octagonal formation. We have investigated the relative sensitivity and the confinement loss of the proposed PCF structures employing a full vectorial finite element method (FEM). The proposed PCFs work at a wide transmission band covering 0.8 µm to 2 µm and exhibit high sensitivity and low confinement loss simultaneously. The numerical analysis shows that the circular shape of air holes in the first ring is a more salient attribute for increasing sensitivity and the presence of the square shape of air holes in the first ring shows better performance to reduce confinement loss.

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Design and Optimization of Highly Sensitive Photonic Crystal Fiber with Low Confinement Loss for Ethanol Detection

Arif¹,

Asaduzzaman²,

Biddut³

et al. 2016

IJTech

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“…As far as practical implementation of these two approaches in creating a Bragg reflector in the fiber is concerned, several methods for selective injection of liquids into photonic crystal fibers have been reported in the past. Most of them are suitable for selectively injecting liquid into the central hole, such as using a fusion splicer to collapse the honeycomb structure around the central hole [56] or by taking advantage of the different capillary forces and filling speeds in the small diameter photonic crystal holes and the larger diameter hollow core [57,58]. However, methods based on gentle splicing of an appropriately positioned capillary to the end of the HCPC [59,60] or on drilling a micron-sized hole using a femtosecond laser into a thin slice of glass attached to the face of a HCPC fiber [61], can be adopted for filling any combination of holes with liquid.…”

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Mesoscale cavities in hollow-core waveguides for quantum optics with atomic ensembles

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Single-mode hollow-core waveguides loaded with atomic ensembles offer an excellent platform for light-matter interactions and nonlinear optics at low photon levels. We review and discuss possible approaches for incorporating mirrors, cavities, and Bragg gratings into these waveguides without obstructing their hollow cores. With these additional features controlling the light propagation in the hollow-core waveguides, one could potentially achieve optical nonlinearities controllable by single photons in systems with small footprints that can be integrated on a chip. We propose possible applications such as single-photon transistors and superradiant lasers that could be implemented in these enhanced hollow-core waveguides.

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“…The matching single hollow core fiber and the accurate cleaving limits the usefulness of this method. (III) The side air-holes are collapsed with arc fusion technique [23][24][25]. The injection-cure-cleave process and the UV curable polymer renders this method impractical.…”

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“…The key parameters of the ARC Fusion Splicer are listed in Table 1. A traditional single mode fiber (SMF) and a PCF sample are placed in the splicer, after auto adjustment; the SMF is removed before the start of the arc discharge; the end of the PCF sample is heated by an arc discharge without splicing with the SMF. The current density distribution [25] between two electrodes is 2 0 2 2…”

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Selectable infiltrating large hollow core photonic band-gap fiber

Liu

Zhu

et al. 2012

Chin. Sci. Bull.

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A selectable infiltrating large hollow core photonic band-gap fiber is fabricated with simple arc discharge technique. The offset, discharge duration, arc current and discharge times are optimized for selected sealing side air-holes but leave the central large air-hole partially open. The collapse length of the PCF is shortened by increasing the number of discharges and offset with discharge duration and arc current kept at a relatively low level. Light with the wavelength located at the photonic band-gap can still propagate while the central hollow air-hole is infiltrated with a kind of oil with refractive index of 1.30. The selectable infiltrating large hollow core photonic band-gap fiber has potential application for implementing novel lasers, sensors and tunable optoelectronic devices.

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Fabrication of selective injection microstructured optical fibers with a conventional fusion splicer

Cited by 221 publications

References 14 publications

Design and Optimization of Highly Sensitive Photonic Crystal Fiber with Low Confinement Loss for Ethanol Detection

Design and Optimization of Highly Sensitive Photonic Crystal Fiber with Low Confinement Loss for Ethanol Detection

Mesoscale cavities in hollow-core waveguides for quantum optics with atomic ensembles

Selectable infiltrating large hollow core photonic band-gap fiber

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