High-performance side-polished fibers and applications as liquid crystal clad fiber polarizers
A plurality of single-mode fibers glued in the curved, V-shaped grooves of a silicon wafer were polished. Using a homemade polisher, we successfully gained access to fiber cores. The insertion losses of the polished samples were negligibly small even for fibers with a curvature radius of 250 cm long...
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Published in | Journal of lightwave technology Vol. 15; no. 8; pp. 1554 - 1558 |
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Main Authors | , |
Format | Journal Article |
Language | English |
Published |
New York, NY
IEEE
01.08.1997
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers |
Subjects | |
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Summary: | A plurality of single-mode fibers glued in the curved, V-shaped grooves of a silicon wafer were polished. Using a homemade polisher, we successfully gained access to fiber cores. The insertion losses of the polished samples were negligibly small even for fibers with a curvature radius of 250 cm long and a proximity to the core smaller than 0.1 /spl mu/m. Experimental calibrations of the samples agreed well with theoretical results. We made liquid crystal clad fiber polarizers by using these side-polished fibers and successfully showed the extinction ratios of the polarizers in good agreement with their liquid-drop results. The extinction ratios of our polarizers were predicated higher than 60 dB. Details of measuring system and processing were considered. |
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ISSN: | 0733-8724 1558-2213 |
DOI: | 10.1109/50.618389 |