Fiber misalignment measurement method by the reflected light from fibers

Laser induced splicing of photonic crystal and standard single mode fibers

“…Another commonly used active splice loss measurement technique [96] is to use macro-bending technique. This method launches laser signal through the macro-bend in the vicinity of fiber edge and leaked light is captured by another nearby section of the macro-bend.…”

“…fiber began in late 70s, which included tasks such as fiber end preparation [41,96,122] fiber tapering and fiber splicing[124]. In the 90s, there was no serious activity to study or implement the laser splicing technology due to the widespread use of electric arc splicing technology.…”