Title :
Highly birefringent biconical fiber tapers fabricated by hydrofluoric acid microdroplet flow etching
Author :
Mikkelsen, Jared ; Poon, Joyce K. S.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng. & Inst. for Opt. Sci., Univ. of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
Abstract :
Biconical fiber tapers with asymmetric, micron-wide cross-sections were etched from standard single-mode fibers by hydrofluoric acid microdroplets. The tapers showed record-high group birefringences of BG ~ 0.017 and insertion losses <; 0.7 dB.
Keywords :
birefringence; etching; optical fibre fabrication; highly birefringent biconical fiber tapers; hydrofluoric acid microdroplet flow etching; micronwide crosssection; standard single mode fiber; Fabrication; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical fiber dispersion; Optical fiber polarization; Optical fiber sensors;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition (OFC/NFOEC), 2012 and the National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference
Conference_Location :
Los Angeles, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-0262-3
