Fabrication of three-dimensional colloidal crystals in the cavity of the optical fiber end face

Author

Guo, Wenhua ; Wang, Ming ; Yu, Ping ; Liu, Qing

Author_Institution

Jiangsu Key Lab. on Opto-Electron. Technol., Nanjing Normal niversity, Nanjing, China

fYear

2009

fDate

15-19 Sept. 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

The natural sedimentation method combined with the isothermal heating evaporation induced self-assembly is presented to fabricate three-dimensional colloidal crystals in the curved cavity of the fiber end face, which was etched by hydrofluoric acid. The colloidal crystals is characterized by scanning electron microscopy, shown to be face centered-cubic structure. A 1380 nm photonic band gap is observed by measuring their transmission spectra at normal incidence by optical spectrum analyzer.

Keywords

colloidal crystals; evaporation; optical fabrication; optical fibres; photonic band gap; photonic crystals; scanning electron microscopy; sedimentation; self-assembly; silicon compounds; curved cavity; face centered-cubic structure; hydrofluoric acid; isothermal heating evaporation; natural sedimentation; optical fiber end face; optical spectrum analyzer; photonic band gap; scanning electron microscopy; self-assembly; three-dimensional colloidal crystals; transmission spectra; Colloidal crystals; Electron optics; Etching; Heating; Isothermal processes; Optical device fabrication; Optical fibers; Photonic band gap; Scanning electron microscopy; Self-assembly; colloidal crystal; optical fiber; photonic band gap;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Photonics in Switching, 2009. PS '09. International Conference on

Conference_Location

Pisa

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-3857-0

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-3856-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PS.2009.5307815

Filename

5307815