• DocumentCode
    600692
  • 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
  • fYear
    2012
  • fDate
    4-8 March 2012
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    3
  • 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;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition (OFC/NFOEC), 2012 and the National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference
  • Conference_Location
    Los Angeles, CA
  • ISSN
    pending
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4673-0262-3
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    6476517
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=600692