Preservation of micro-optical fibres by embedding
Preservation of micro-optical fibres by embedding
Although micro-optical fibers have found many potential applications in devices and sensing, their optical and mechanical properties quickly degrade with time. In this paper a method to preserve micro-optical fibers by embedding from degradation is presented and studied. The power transmission of bare and Teflon-coated micro-optical fibers has been investigated along a long time. While in bare micro-optical fibers with 0.9 µm-diameter an unrecoverable loss of 0.2 dB/h has been observed, Teflon has been shown to provide a reliable protection against degradation.
microfibers, fiber tapers, coating, optical loss, embedding, mode propagation, degradation
6675-6677
Xu, Fei
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Brambilla, Gilberto
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22 August 2008
Xu, Fei
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Brambilla, Gilberto
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Xu, Fei and Brambilla, Gilberto
(2008)
Preservation of micro-optical fibres by embedding.
Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, 47 (8), .
(doi:10.1143/JJAP.47.6675).
Abstract
Although micro-optical fibers have found many potential applications in devices and sensing, their optical and mechanical properties quickly degrade with time. In this paper a method to preserve micro-optical fibers by embedding from degradation is presented and studied. The power transmission of bare and Teflon-coated micro-optical fibers has been investigated along a long time. While in bare micro-optical fibers with 0.9 µm-diameter an unrecoverable loss of 0.2 dB/h has been observed, Teflon has been shown to provide a reliable protection against degradation.
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Published date: 22 August 2008
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microfibers, fiber tapers, coating, optical loss, embedding, mode propagation, degradation
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/63365
ISSN: 0021-4922
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Gilberto Brambilla
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