• DocumentCode
    689717
  • Title

    High sensitivity tapered fiber Mach-Zehnder interferometer with optical attractive near-field force for active microsensing

  • Author

    Nan-Kuang Chen ; Tsung-Hsun Yang ; Yi-Ning Chen ; Zhao-Ying Chen ; Shien-Kuei Liaw

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electro-Opt. Eng., Nat. United Univ., Miaoli, Taiwan
  • fYear
    2013
  • fDate
    9-14 June 2013
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    We demonstrate micro tapered fiber Mach-Zehnder-interferometer with one of the abrupt tapers is stretched and thinned to a diameter of 3.64 μm to strongly enhance the optical attractive force for high sensitivity cellular-dimension microsensing.
  • Keywords
    Mach-Zehnder interferometers; fibre optic sensors; micro-optomechanical devices; microsensors; active microsensing; high sensitivity cellular-dimension microsensing; high sensitivity tapered fiber Mach-Zehnder interferometer; microtapered fiber Mach-Zehnder-interferometer; optical attractive near-field force; Optical fiber couplers; Optical fiber polarization; Optical fiber sensors;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2013 Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Jose, CA
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    6834104