Optical fiber microwires and nanowires manufactured by modified flame brushing technique: properties and applications

Brambilla, Gilberto; Jung, Yongmin; Renna, F.

doi:10.1007/s12200-009-0081-1

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“…The length of the microfibre waist region is assumed to be equal to the length of this effective heat zone, where a simple single stretching pull of the fibre is employed. In order to fabricate microfibres with longer waist regions, the effective heating length can be extended by introducing a repeated brushing motion of the microheater into the tapering process [ 33 ]. The travel range of this repeated brushing motion is defined as microheater brushing length L brush .…”

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Optical Microfibre Based Photonic Components and Their Applications in Label-Free Biosensing

Wang

Lin²,

Semenova³

et al. 2015

Biosensors

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Optical microfibre photonic components offer a variety of enabling properties, including large evanescent fields, flexibility, configurability, high confinement, robustness and compactness. These unique features have been exploited in a range of applications such as telecommunication, sensing, optical manipulation and high Q resonators. Optical microfibre biosensors, as a class of fibre optic biosensors which rely on small geometries to expose the evanescent field to interact with samples, have been widely investigated. Due to their unique properties, such as fast response, functionalization, strong confinement, configurability, flexibility, compact size, low cost, robustness, ease of miniaturization, large evanescent field and label-free operation, optical microfibres based biosensors seem a promising alternative to traditional immunological methods for biomolecule measurements. Unlabeled DNA and protein targets can be detected by monitoring the changes of various optical transduction mechanisms, such as refractive index, absorption and surface plasmon resonance, since a target molecule is capable of binding to an immobilized optical microfibre. In this review, we critically summarize accomplishments of past optical microfibre label-free biosensors, identify areas for future research and provide a detailed account of the studies conducted to date for biomolecules detection using optical microfibres.

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Optical Microfibre Based Photonic Components and Their Applications in Label-Free Biosensing

Wang

Lin²,

Semenova³

et al. 2015

Biosensors

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“…To fabricate such a device the same general fabrication technique is typically applied, involving the heating of an optical fiber to a molten state while elongating it to create a tapered optical fiber. Until now a number of different heat sources have been used for this process, including a gas flame [14,15], C0 2 laser [16], microheater [17], and electrical strip heater [18]. Independent of the type of heat source a pair of parameters are vital for determining the shape of the tapered region, along with the length and diameter of the ONF waist region [19,20].…”

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Spectroscopy, Manipulation and Trapping of Neutral Atoms, Molecules, and Other Particles Using Optical Nanofibers: A Review

Morrissey

Deasy

Frawley

et al. 2013

Sensors

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The use of tapered optical fibers, i.e., optical nanofibers, for spectroscopy and the detection of small numbers of particles, such as neutral atoms or molecules, has been gaining interest in recent years. In this review, we briefly introduce the optical nanofiber, its fabrication, and optical mode propagation within. We discuss recent progress on the integration of optical nanofibers into laser-cooled atom and vapor systems, paying particular attention to spectroscopy, cold atom cloud characterization, and optical trapping schemes. Next, a natural extension of this work to molecules is introduced. Finally, we consider several alternatives to optical nanofibers that display some advantages for specific applications.

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“…With recent advances in microphotonics and nanophotonics, optical micro‐ or nanofibers with diameters close to the wavelength of guided light have attracted considerable interest as promising building blocks for a variety of photonic applications [1, 2]. They offer many exciting properties such as large evanescent field, low loss interconnection to other optical fibers and fiberized components, and robustness [1]. In the microfiber device, a considerable fraction of the transmitted power can propagate in the evanescent field outside the microfiber.…”

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Fabrication of microfiber loop resonator‐based comb filter

Lim

Harun

Jasim

et al. 2011

Micro & Optical Tech Letters

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Microfiber loop resonator (MLR) is fabricated by coiling of a microfiber, which was obtained by the fast stretching of a heated single mode fiber. The MLR is embedded in low refractive index material to keep the system robust. Two comb filters with a constant spacing of 0.16 nm and 0.71 nm are successfully achieved, which the extinction ratio can be adjusted by controlling the state of polarization of the input light. It was also found that the wavelength of each peak and the spacing remain unchanged regardless of the state of polarization of the input light. This MLR does not have major issues with input–output coupling and presents a completely integrated fiberized solution. © 2011 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Microwave Opt Technol Lett 53:1119–1121, 2011; View this article online at wileyonlinelibrary.com. DOI 10.1002/mop.25916

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Optical fiber microwires and nanowires manufactured by modified flame brushing technique: properties and applications

Abstract: The modified "flame brushing" technique has been used to manufacture microwires and nanowires from both silica and compound glasses. In this paper, the properties of the wires manufactured by this technique are presented. Applications fabricated from microwires are also discussed.

Cited by 16 publications

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Optical Microfibre Based Photonic Components and Their Applications in Label-Free Biosensing

Optical Microfibre Based Photonic Components and Their Applications in Label-Free Biosensing

Spectroscopy, Manipulation and Trapping of Neutral Atoms, Molecules, and Other Particles Using Optical Nanofibers: A Review

Fabrication of microfiber loop resonator‐based comb filter

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