A fiberized highly birefringent glass micrometer-size ridge waveguide
A fiberized highly birefringent glass micrometer-size ridge waveguide
We report the fabrication of a fiberized micrometer-size ridge waveguide using a sheet-stacking method. The fabrication conditions for maintaining the ridge geometry with micrometer dimensions were investigated and discussed. A loss of 3.9 dB/m was measured at 1.55 µm in the fiber ridge waveguide, showing no extra loss above the bulk loss of the glass. A high birefringence of 9.5 x 10-3 was measured in the waveguide at 1.55 µm which is close to the reported highest birefringence (1.1 x 10-2) in optical fibers. Fusion splicing was successfully employed to splice the fabricated waveguide to a conventional silica fiber with reasonable loss.
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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Horak, Peter
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Poletti, Francesco
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June 2015
Shi, Jindan
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Feng, Xian
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Horak, Peter
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Poletti, Francesco
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Shi, Jindan, Feng, Xian, Horak, Peter and Poletti, Francesco
(2015)
A fiberized highly birefringent glass micrometer-size ridge waveguide.
Optical Fiber Technology, 23, .
(doi:10.1016/j.yofte.2015.04.001).
Abstract
We report the fabrication of a fiberized micrometer-size ridge waveguide using a sheet-stacking method. The fabrication conditions for maintaining the ridge geometry with micrometer dimensions were investigated and discussed. A loss of 3.9 dB/m was measured at 1.55 µm in the fiber ridge waveguide, showing no extra loss above the bulk loss of the glass. A high birefringence of 9.5 x 10-3 was measured in the waveguide at 1.55 µm which is close to the reported highest birefringence (1.1 x 10-2) in optical fibers. Fusion splicing was successfully employed to splice the fabricated waveguide to a conventional silica fiber with reasonable loss.
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e-pub ahead of print date: 17 April 2015
Published date: June 2015
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/386322
ISSN: 1068-5200
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Francesco Poletti
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