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Nondestructive measurement of the roughness of the inner surface of hollow core-photonic bandgap fibers

Nondestructive measurement of the roughness of the inner surface of hollow core-photonic bandgap fibers
Nondestructive measurement of the roughness of the inner surface of hollow core-photonic bandgap fibers
We present optical and atomic force microscopy measurements of the roughness of the core wall surface within a hollow core photonic bandgap fiber (HC-PBGF) over the [3×10-2 µm-1 to 30 µm-1] spatial frequency range. A recently developed immersion optical profilometry technique with picometer-scale sensitivity was used to measure the roughness of air-glass surfaces inside the fiber at unprecedentedly low spatial frequencies, which are known to have the highest impact on HC-PBGF scattering loss and, thus, determine their loss limit. Optical access to the inner surface of the core was obtained by the selective filling of the cladding holes with index matching liquid using techniques borrowed from micro-fluidics. Both measurement techniques reveal ultralow roughness levels exhibiting a 1/f spectral power density dependency characteristic of frozen surface capillary waves over a broad spatial frequency range. However, a deviation from this behavior at low spatial frequencies was observed for the first time, to the best of our knowledge.
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Richardson, David
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Buet, Xavier, Brun, Coralie, Gateau, Jerome, Bresson, Bruno, Sandoghchi, Seyed Reza, Numkam Fokoua, Eric, Petrovich, Marco, Poletti, Francesco, Richardson, David, Vandembroucq, D. and Tessier, Gilles (2016) Nondestructive measurement of the roughness of the inner surface of hollow core-photonic bandgap fibers. Optics Letters, 41 (21), 5086-5089. (doi:10.1364/OL.41.005086). (PMID:27805692)

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We present optical and atomic force microscopy measurements of the roughness of the core wall surface within a hollow core photonic bandgap fiber (HC-PBGF) over the [3×10-2 µm-1 to 30 µm-1] spatial frequency range. A recently developed immersion optical profilometry technique with picometer-scale sensitivity was used to measure the roughness of air-glass surfaces inside the fiber at unprecedentedly low spatial frequencies, which are known to have the highest impact on HC-PBGF scattering loss and, thus, determine their loss limit. Optical access to the inner surface of the core was obtained by the selective filling of the cladding holes with index matching liquid using techniques borrowed from micro-fluidics. Both measurement techniques reveal ultralow roughness levels exhibiting a 1/f spectral power density dependency characteristic of frozen surface capillary waves over a broad spatial frequency range. However, a deviation from this behavior at low spatial frequencies was observed for the first time, to the best of our knowledge.

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Accepted/In Press date: 6 October 2016
e-pub ahead of print date: 31 October 2016
Published date: 31 October 2016
Organisations: Optoelectronics Research Centre

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Local EPrints ID: 401867
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/401867
ISSN: 0146-9592
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ORCID for Seyed Reza Sandoghchi: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0003-2196-3167
ORCID for Eric Numkam Fokoua: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0003-0873-911X
ORCID for Marco Petrovich: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-3905-5901
ORCID for Francesco Poletti: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-1000-3083
ORCID for David Richardson: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-7751-1058

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Author: Xavier Buet
Author: Coralie Brun
Author: Jerome Gateau
Author: Bruno Bresson
Author: Seyed Reza Sandoghchi ORCID iD
Author: Eric Numkam Fokoua ORCID iD
Author: Marco Petrovich ORCID iD
Author: D. Vandembroucq
Author: Gilles Tessier

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