A heat-and-pull rig for fiber taper fabrication

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dc.contributor.authorWard, Jonathan M.
dc.contributor.authorO'Shea, Danny G.
dc.contributor.authorShortt, Brian J.
dc.contributor.authorMorrissey, Michael J.
dc.contributor.authorDeasy, Kieran
dc.contributor.authorNic Chormaic, Síle
dc.contributor.funderScience Foundation Irelanden
dc.contributor.funderIrish Research Council for Science Engineering and Technologyen
dc.contributor.funderCork Institute of Technologyen
dc.contributor.funderCouncil of Directors of the Institutes of Technology, Irelanden
dc.date.accessioned2011-03-01T15:23:11Z
dc.date.available2011-03-01T15:23:11Z
dc.date.copyright2006
dc.date.issued2006-08
dc.date.updated2010-10-12T10:33:29Z
dc.description.abstractWe describe a reproducible method of fabricating adiabatic tapers with 3–4 μm diameter. The method is based on a heat-and-pull rig, whereby a CO2 laser is continuously scanned across a length of fiber that is being pulled synchronously. Our system relies on a CO2 mirror mounted on a geared stepper motor in order to scan the laser beam across the taper region. We show that this system offers a reliable alternative to more traditional rigs incorporating galvanometer scanners. We have routinely obtained transmission losses between 0.1 and 0.3 dB indicating the satisfactory production of adiabatic tapers. The operation of the rig is described in detail and an analysis on the produced tapers is provided. The flexibility of the rig is demonstrated by fabricating prolate dielectric microresonators using a microtapering technique. Such a rig is of interest to a range of fields that require tapered fiber fabrication such as microcavity-taper coupling, atom guiding along a tapered fiber, optical fiber sensing, and the fabrication of fused biconical tapered couplers.en
dc.description.sponsorshipScience Foundation Ireland (Grant No. 02/IN1/128); IRCSET (EMBARK initiative)en
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.description.versionPublished Versionen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.citationWard, J.M., O'Shea, D.G., Shortt, B.J, Morrissey, M.J., Deasy, K., Nic Chormaic, S., 2006. A heat-and-pull rig for fiber taper fabrication. Review of Scientific Instruments, 77(8), pp.083105-1 - 083105-5en
dc.identifier.doi10.1063/1.2239033
dc.identifier.endpage083105-5en
dc.identifier.issn0034-6748
dc.identifier.issued8en
dc.identifier.journaltitleReview of Scientific Instrumentsen
dc.identifier.startpage083105-1en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/236
dc.identifier.volume77en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherAmerican Institute of Physicsen
dc.rights© 2006 American Institute of Physics. This article may be downloaded for personal use only. Any other use requires prior permission of the author and the American Institute of Physics. The following article appeared in Ward, J.M., O'Shea, D.G., Shortt, B.J, Morrissey, M.J., Deasy, K., Nic Chormaic, S., 2006. A heat-and-pull rig for fiber taper fabrication. Review of Scientific Instruments, 77(8), pp.083105-1 - 083105-5. http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.2239033en
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dc.subjectLaser applicationsen
dc.subjectFabrication, cladding, and splicingen
dc.subjectPropagation, scattering, and lossesen
dc.subject.lcshSolitonsen
dc.titleA heat-and-pull rig for fiber taper fabricationen
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
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