Selective-Fluid-Filling Technique of Microstructured Optical Fibers

Author

Wang, Yiping ; Liu, Shujing ; Tan, Xiaoling ; Jin, Wei

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Hong Kong Polytech. Univ., Hong Kong, China

Volume

28

Issue

22

fYear

2010

Firstpage

3193

Lastpage

3196

Abstract

A versatile technique is demonstrated to fill selectively a fluid into desired air holes in a microstructured optical fibers (MOFs). A fan-shaped groove is carved on the fiber surface to expose selected air holes to atmosphere by a micromachining system consisting of a femtosecond IR laser and a microscope. Then a fluid is filled into the exposed air holes through the carved groove with the well-known capillarity action. Such a technique can be used to fill selectively several different types of fluid samples into desired air holes in an MOF by means of carving fan-shaped grooves on different orientations of the fiber surface.

Keywords

high-speed optical techniques; laser beam machining; micro-optomechanical devices; microfluidics; micromachining; optical fabrication; optical fibres; optical microscopy; MOF; air holes; capillarity; carved groove; fan-shaped groove; femtosecond IR laser; micromachining; microscope; microstructured optical fibers; selective-fluid-filling technique; Fiber lasers; Fluids; Optical fiber sensors; Optical fibers; Photonic crystal fibers; Ultrafast optics; Microstructured optical fibers (MOFs); filling techniques; fluid; photonic crystal fibers;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Lightwave Technology, Journal of

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0733-8724

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/JLT.2010.2083636

Filename

5593861