Fusion splicing soft-glass suspended core fibers to solid silica fibers for optical fiber sensing

Englich, Florian V.; Schartner, Erik P.; Murphy, Dominic F.; Ebendorff‐Heidepriem, Heike; Monro, Tanya M.

doi:10.1109/acoft.2010.5929904

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“…For example, free-space coupling instabilities of the pump beam into the MOF core translate to instabilities in the intensity levels for fluorophore excitation as well as fluorescence signal recapture. We expect to substantially improve the sensor performance by fusion splicing the soft-glass MOF to conventional silica fibers, and have reported initial fusion splicing results for these fibers with some success [ 35 ]. Such stable, permanently aligned connections with no exposed optical surfaces will improve the stability of the pump (excitation) and fluorescence signals which are launched in and out of the MOF, the sensors SNR, as well as prevent possible evaporation and crystallization of analyte solution at the fiber endface.…”

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Photoinduced Electron Transfer Based Ion Sensing within an Optical Fiber

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We combine suspended-core microstructured optical fibers with the photoinduced electron transfer (PET) effect to demonstrate a new type of fluorescent optical fiber-dip sensing platform for small volume ion detection. A sensor design based on a simple model PET-fluoroionophore system and small core microstructured optical fiber capable of detecting sodium ions is demonstrated. The performance of the dip sensor operating in a high sodium concentration regime (925 ppm Na+) and for lower sodium concentration environments (18.4 ppm Na+) is explored and future approaches to improving the sensor’s signal stability, sensitivity and selectivity are discussed.

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Photoinduced Electron Transfer Based Ion Sensing within an Optical Fiber

Englich

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Richardson

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“…Fusion splicing offers important advantages compared with free-space coupling using bulk optics or direct butt coupling 13 . It provides stable connection, permanent alignment, compactness, and absence of exposed optical surfaces that can be prone to contamination or damage as well as lower reflections at the splice joint 14 . In this paper we report on the process of low-loss splice between soft glass all-solid microstructured fibers with standard single mode fiber.…”

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Low loss coupling and splicing of standard single mode fibers with all-solid soft-glass microstructured fibers for supercontinuum generation

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In this work we would like to present the results of low loss coupling of a novel soft glass fiber for super continuum generation with standard single mode fiber by a filament splicing method. For our experiment we used an all solid soft glass microstructured fiber (MSF) made from a composition of F2 lead-silicate glass and NC21 borosilicate glass. The structure and material properties of the fiber were optimized to achieve all normal dispersion (ND) flattened around 1560 nm, which offers two general advantages for supercontinuum generation. The ND supercontinuum avoids soliton dynamics, hence it is less sensitive to pump laser shot noise and has larger degree of coherence than supercontinuum in the anomalous dispersion range. Furthermore flattening around 1560 nm indicates optimal supercontinuum pump wavelength, which is readily available from erbium doped femtosecond fiber lasers. Using Vytran splicing station (GPX3400) we were able to achieve repeatable splice loss between a standard fused-silica single mode fiber (SMF28) and the low-melting-temperature soft glass MSF as low as 2.12 dB @1310 nm and 1.94 dB @ 1550 nm. The developed very low loss splicing technology together with the above mentioned all solid soft glass MSF advantages give very promising perspectives for commercial applications.

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High-efficiency Fusion Splicing of Mid-infrared Special Fibers with the Silica Fibers

Yao

2019

2019 Photonics &Amp; Electromagnetics Research Symposium - Fall (PIERS - Fall)

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Fusion splicing soft-glass suspended core fibers to solid silica fibers for optical fiber sensing

Abstract: We report fusion splicing of soft-glass suspended small-core fibers to conventional silica single-mode fibers for integration with conventional fiber systems. Heat-induced damage to the microstructured fiber region is minimized by using a low-power iridium filament.

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Photoinduced Electron Transfer Based Ion Sensing within an Optical Fiber

Photoinduced Electron Transfer Based Ion Sensing within an Optical Fiber

Low loss coupling and splicing of standard single mode fibers with all-solid soft-glass microstructured fibers for supercontinuum generation

High-efficiency Fusion Splicing of Mid-infrared Special Fibers with the Silica Fibers

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