Fabrication of multiple parallel suspended-core optical fibers by sheet-stacking
Fabrication of multiple parallel suspended-core optical fibers by sheet-stacking
We demonstrate the fabrication of a novel type of optical fibers with multiple parallel air-suspended cores by the sheet-stacking method. Using this technique we have constructed optical fibers with up to 10 parallel micron-size suspended cores. No extra scattering loss from the fabrication process was observed in a fabricated dual air-suspended core fiber. The sheet-stacking method opens the way towards using a wide range of optical glasses for manufacturing multiple parallel suspended-core specialty optical fibers with novel optical functionalities such as dispersion tunability. Fusion splicing has also been successfully used to connect such a multiple core fiber with a conventional silica fiber.
non-silica glass fiber, microstructured optical fiber, fiber design and fabrication
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Shi, Jindan
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Feng, Xian
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Poletti, Francesco
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Horak, Peter
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2014
Shi, Jindan
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Feng, Xian
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Horak, Peter
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Shi, Jindan, Feng, Xian, Lian, Zhenggang, White, Nicholas, Loh, Wei, Poletti, Francesco and Horak, Peter
(2014)
Fabrication of multiple parallel suspended-core optical fibers by sheet-stacking.
Optical Fiber Technology, 20 (4), .
(doi:10.1016/j.yofte.2014.04.006).
Abstract
We demonstrate the fabrication of a novel type of optical fibers with multiple parallel air-suspended cores by the sheet-stacking method. Using this technique we have constructed optical fibers with up to 10 parallel micron-size suspended cores. No extra scattering loss from the fabrication process was observed in a fabricated dual air-suspended core fiber. The sheet-stacking method opens the way towards using a wide range of optical glasses for manufacturing multiple parallel suspended-core specialty optical fibers with novel optical functionalities such as dispersion tunability. Fusion splicing has also been successfully used to connect such a multiple core fiber with a conventional silica fiber.
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Published date: 2014
Keywords:
non-silica glass fiber, microstructured optical fiber, fiber design and fabrication
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Optoelectronics Research Centre
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/367722
ISSN: 1068-5200
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Xian Feng
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Peter Horak
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