Tapered silicon core fibers with nano-spikes for optical coupling via spliced silica fibers
Tapered silicon core fibers with nano-spikes for optical coupling via spliced silica fibers
Reported here is the fabrication of tapered silicon core fibers possessing a nano-spike input that facilitates their seamless splicing to conventional single mode fibers. A proof-of-concept 30 µm cladding diameter fiber device is demonstrated with nano-spike coupling and propagation losses below 4 dB and 2 dB/cm, respectively. Finite-element-method-based simulations show that the nano-spike coupling losses could be reduced to below 1 dB by decreasing the cladding diameters down to 10 µm. Such efficient and robust integration of the silicon core fibers with standard fiber devices will help to overcome significant barriers for all-fiber nonlinear photonics and optoelectronics.
silicon core fiber, tapered optical fibers, Silicon
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Ren, Haonan
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Aktaş, Ozan
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Franz, Yohann
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Runge, Antoine F.J.
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Hawkins, Thomas
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Ballato, John
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Gibson, Ursula J.
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Peacock, Anna
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2 October 2017
Ren, Haonan
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Aktaş, Ozan
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Franz, Yohann
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Runge, Antoine F.J.
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Hawkins, Thomas
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Ballato, John
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Gibson, Ursula J.
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Peacock, Anna
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Ren, Haonan, Aktaş, Ozan, Franz, Yohann, Runge, Antoine F.J., Hawkins, Thomas, Ballato, John, Gibson, Ursula J. and Peacock, Anna
(2017)
Tapered silicon core fibers with nano-spikes for optical coupling via spliced silica fibers.
Optics Express, 25 (20), .
(doi:10.1364/OE.25.024157).
Abstract
Reported here is the fabrication of tapered silicon core fibers possessing a nano-spike input that facilitates their seamless splicing to conventional single mode fibers. A proof-of-concept 30 µm cladding diameter fiber device is demonstrated with nano-spike coupling and propagation losses below 4 dB and 2 dB/cm, respectively. Finite-element-method-based simulations show that the nano-spike coupling losses could be reduced to below 1 dB by decreasing the cladding diameters down to 10 µm. Such efficient and robust integration of the silicon core fibers with standard fiber devices will help to overcome significant barriers for all-fiber nonlinear photonics and optoelectronics.
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Submitted date: 7 July 2017
Accepted/In Press date: 2 September 2017
e-pub ahead of print date: 22 September 2017
Published date: 2 October 2017
Keywords:
silicon core fiber, tapered optical fibers, Silicon
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Local EPrints ID: 414739
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/414739
ISSN: 1094-4087
PURE UUID: 43714592-b2eb-42e5-8cb0-b4d126dc83bd
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Haonan Ren
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Ozan Aktaş
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Yohann Franz
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Antoine F.J. Runge
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Thomas Hawkins
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John Ballato
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Ursula J. Gibson
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