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Efficient light confinement with nanostructured optical microfiber tips

Efficient light confinement with nanostructured optical microfiber tips
Efficient light confinement with nanostructured optical microfiber tips
Nanostructured optical microfiber tips are proposed and experimentally demonstrated to efficiently confine light beyond the diffraction limit at high powers. Focused ion beam milling was used for the nanostructuring of gold-coated optical microfiber tips with both single-ramp and wedge geometries. Small apertures were formed by flat cutting or hole drilling and optical spot sizes of ~λ/10 with high transmission efficiency were achieved. Numerical simulations were carried out to optimize the device design with circularly polarized light. Enhanced transmission efficiencies (higher than 10-2) were recorded by optimizing the overall light throughput along the fiber tips. The tip thermal behavior was investigated by launching high powers into the device and recording the tip position in a scanning near-field optical microscopy set-up. This nanostructured optical microfiber tip has the potential for applications in optical recording, scanning near-field optical microscopy and lithography.
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4688-4697
Ding, Ming
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Fenwick, Oliver
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Di Stasio, Francesco
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Ding, Ming, Fenwick, Oliver, Di Stasio, Francesco, Ou, Jun-Yu, Sessions, Neil, Jung, Yongmin, Cacialli, Franco and Brambilla, Gilberto (2012) Efficient light confinement with nanostructured optical microfiber tips. Optics Communications, 285 (23), 4688-4697. (doi:10.1016/j.optcom.2012.05.006).

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Nanostructured optical microfiber tips are proposed and experimentally demonstrated to efficiently confine light beyond the diffraction limit at high powers. Focused ion beam milling was used for the nanostructuring of gold-coated optical microfiber tips with both single-ramp and wedge geometries. Small apertures were formed by flat cutting or hole drilling and optical spot sizes of ~λ/10 with high transmission efficiency were achieved. Numerical simulations were carried out to optimize the device design with circularly polarized light. Enhanced transmission efficiencies (higher than 10-2) were recorded by optimizing the overall light throughput along the fiber tips. The tip thermal behavior was investigated by launching high powers into the device and recording the tip position in a scanning near-field optical microscopy set-up. This nanostructured optical microfiber tip has the potential for applications in optical recording, scanning near-field optical microscopy and lithography.

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Published date: October 2012
Organisations: Optoelectronics Research Centre

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Local EPrints ID: 343744
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/343744
ISSN: 0030-4018
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ORCID for Jun-Yu Ou: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0001-8028-6130
ORCID for Yongmin Jung: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-9054-4372
ORCID for Gilberto Brambilla: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-5730-0499

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Date deposited: 09 Oct 2012 15:43
Last modified: 15 Mar 2024 03:39

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Author: Ming Ding
Author: Oliver Fenwick
Author: Francesco Di Stasio
Author: Jun-Yu Ou ORCID iD
Author: Neil Sessions
Author: Yongmin Jung ORCID iD
Author: Franco Cacialli
Author: Gilberto Brambilla ORCID iD

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