• DocumentCode
    3571871
  • Title

    Elliptical CO2 laser beam tapering of pressurised bismuth microstructured optical fiber

  • Author

    Boyd, K. ; Murphy, D.F. ; Munch, J. ; Monro, T.M.

  • Author_Institution
    Inst. for Photonics & Adv. Sensing (IPAS), Univ. of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia
  • fYear
    2010
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    4
  • Abstract
    We demonstrate controlled, adiabatic tapering of pressurized bismuth hexagonal microstructured optical fibers, enabling holes of diameters <; 300 nm, with controlled collapse, and core sizes <; 1 μm using an elliptical CO2 laser beam profile.
  • Keywords
    bismuth; carbon compounds; gas lasers; laser materials processing; optical fibre fabrication; Bi; CO2; adiabatic tapering; controlled collapse; core sizes; elliptical CO2 laser beam; pressurised bismuth microstructured optical fiber; Bismuth; CO2 Laser; Microstructured Optical Fiber (MOF); Soft glass; Taper;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Fibre Technology (ACOFT), 2010 35th Australian Conference on
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ACOFT.2010.5929888
  • Filename
    5929888
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=3571871