Fabrication of corrugated Ge-doped silica fibers
Journal article, 2012
We present a method of fabricating Ge-doped SiO2 fibers with corrugations around their full circumference for a desired length in the longitudinal direction. The procedure comprises three steps: hydrogenation of Ge-doped SiO2 fibers to increase photosensitivity, recording of Bragg gratings with ultraviolet light to achieve modulation of refractive index, and chemical etching. Finite-length, radially corrugated fibers may be used as couplers. Corrugated tapered fibers are used as high energy throughput probes in scanning near-field optical microscopy.
transmission
bragg gratings
tip
hydrogen
light
wave-guides
photosensitivity
probe
refractive-index
field optical microscopy
Author
P. Wróbel
University of Warsaw
T. Stefaniuk
University of Warsaw
Tomasz Antosiewicz
Chalmers, Applied Physics, Condensed Matter Theory
A. Libura
Polish Academy of Sciences
G. Nowak
Polish Academy of Sciences
T. Wejrzanowski
Warsaw University of Technology
Mariusz Andrzejczuk
Warsaw University of Technology
Krzysztof J. Kurzydlowski
Warsaw University of Technology
K. Jedrzejewski
Warsaw University of Technology
T. Szoplik
University of Warsaw
Optics Express
1094-4087 (ISSN) 10944087 (eISSN)
Vol. 20 13 14508-14513Subject Categories (SSIF 2011)
Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Information Engineering
DOI
10.1364/OE.20.014508