Title :
Optical attractive force in tapered Mach-Zehnder and Sagnac loop interferometers for active microsensing applications
Author :
Nan-Kuang Chen ; Jheng-Jyun Wang ; Zhao-Ying Chen ; Tsung-Hsun Yang
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electro-Opt. Eng., Nat. United Univ., Miaoli, Taiwan
Abstract :
The optical attractive force can be available when the diameter of the tapered fiber is approaching the wavelength scale. By incorporating the tapered fiber into the micro fiber Mach-Zehnder and Sagnac loop interferometers, the optical attractive force can be employed to attract the desired micro- or nano-particles for active microsensing.
Keywords :
Sagnac interferometers; micro-optics; microsensors; nanoparticles; Sagnac loop interferometers; active microsensing applications; nanoparticles; optical attractive force; tapered Mach-Zehnder; wavelength scale; Optical fiber couplers; Optical fiber polarization; Optical fiber sensors; Optical interferometry; Author´s Guideline; Paper format;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communications and Networks (ICOCN), 2013 12th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Chengdu
DOI :
10.1109/ICOCN.2013.6617194
