Taper splice method for single-mode fibers

Ishikura, Akihiko; Kato, Yasuyuki; Miyauchi, Mitsuru

doi:10.1364/ao.25.003460

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“…A MFA may even be considered as a splice between two fibers with slightly different mode field diameters. Typically, they are fabricated just like power combiners by tapering or TEC method or the combination of both [88][89][90][91] however, there are other solutions like mode field adaptors based on multimode interference in graded index multimode fiber (GIMF) [92,93].…”

Section: Mode Field Adaptorsmentioning

confidence: 99%

High-Power Passive Fiber Components for All-Fiber Lasers and Amplifiers Application—Design and Fabrication

Stachowiak

2018

Photonics

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The most important components for application in high-power all-fiber lasers and amplifiers are, most of all, power combiners, but also mode field adaptors. This paper summarizes recent achievements in the area of development and fabrication of high-power passive fiber components. The principles of operation and basic design and fabrication criteria, which have to be taken into account while designing the aforementioned components, are explained in detail. The most recent impressive achievements are summarized and described.

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Section: Mode Field Adaptorsmentioning

confidence: 99%

High-Power Passive Fiber Components for All-Fiber Lasers and Amplifiers Application—Design and Fabrication

Stachowiak

2018

Photonics

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“…The tapered fiber and thermally expanded core (TEC) structures are the well-established techniques of core geometry manipulations. In a fiber taper, the core size gradually shrinks at the same rate of the cladding diameter reduction [17][18][19]. Splicing the tapered LCF to the SMF can make a very low-loss transitional structure with matched mode fields.…”

Section: Stc Fibermentioning

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Ultra-thin and flexible endoscopy probe for optical coherence tomography based on stepwise transitional core fiber

Lee

Chae

Ahn

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Biomed. Opt. Express

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We present an ultra-thin fiber-body endoscopy probe for optical coherence tomography (OCT) which is based on a stepwise transitional core (STC) fiber. In a minimalistic design, our probe was made of spliced specialty fibers that could be directly used for beam probing optics without using a lens. In our probe, the OCT light delivered through a single-mode fiber was efficiently expanded to a large mode field of 24 μm diameter for a low beam divergence. The size of our probe was 85 μm in the probe's diameter while operated in a 160-μm thick protective tubing. Through theoretical and experimental analyses, our probe was found to exhibit various attractive features in terms of compactness, flexibility and reliability along with its excellent fabrication simplicity.

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“…The loss evolution can be followed by an optical spectrum analyzer (or an optical power meter). The length of the taper region can be controlled by displacing the fibre during the arc discharge [10]. Tapers increase the interaction between the fibre guided modes and the surrounding medium, thus being very useful for refractive index measurement, particularly when combined with fibre gratings [32].…”

Section: Basic Devices: Fibre Tapers Probes and Microspheresmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Several other fibre optics components have been produced based on the electric arc technique. Some are just basic devices like fibre tapers [10], fibre probes [11] and microspheres [12] whilst others like fibre couplers [13] and long-period fibre gratings (LPFGs) [14] are more complex. Fibre couplers are important devices for optical communications and sensing that can be fabricated by fusion with an electric arc; two or more fibres being pulled to form a tapered structure [15][16][17].…”

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Fibre optic devices produced by arc discharges

Rego

2010

J. Opt.

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We present an overview of the applications of the electric arc technique related to optical fibre technology. The use of arc discharges ranges from the well-known fibre splicing, going through the fabrication of basic devices such as fibre tapers and microspheres, to tailoring the spectra of UV-induced gratings such as in the apodization of fibre Bragg gratings and also in the fabrication of phase-shifted and sampled fibre Bragg gratings. However, in the past decade a topic more intensively investigated was probably long-period fibre gratings. Therefore, some devices based on arc-induced gratings, namely, phase-shifted and step-changed gratings and bandpass filters are discussed. We also present an electrically insulated thermocouple assembled in situ using arc discharges. This sensor is very useful in the determination of the temperature attained by the fibre during an arc discharge, this property being fundamental for the discussion of the mechanisms of formation and for the understanding of the thermal properties of arc-induced devices.

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Taper splice method for single-mode fibers

Cited by 18 publications

References 13 publications

High-Power Passive Fiber Components for All-Fiber Lasers and Amplifiers Application—Design and Fabrication

High-Power Passive Fiber Components for All-Fiber Lasers and Amplifiers Application—Design and Fabrication

Ultra-thin and flexible endoscopy probe for optical coherence tomography based on stepwise transitional core fiber

Fibre optic devices produced by arc discharges

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