Fabrication Colloidal Crystals on the End Face of Optical Fiber as Optical Narrow-Band Filter

Author

Yan, Haitao ; Zhao, Xiaoyan ; Zhen, Zhiqiang ; Qiao, Chengbo ; Xiong, Guoxin ; Wang, Ming ; Han, Daofu

Author_Institution

Luoyang Key Lab. of Photoelectric Functional Mater., Henan Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Luoyang, China

fYear

2012

fDate

21-23 May 2012

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

Abstract

The method of growing the colloidal crystals on the end face of optical fiber is researched. The wet chemical etching technique is used to etch single mode fiber to obtain a shallow circular-cavity between the coating and cladding. The optical fiber with the cavity is immersed upside into solution containing polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA) spheres and the colloidal crystals are formed into the cavity. The fiber with colloidal crystals and another fiber are packaged. The transmission spectral is measured to confirm the band gap structure. The results show the micro-system can be used as fiber optical narrow-band filter.

Keywords

colloidal crystals; etching; optical fibre cladding; optical fibre fabrication; optical fibre filters; PMMA spheres; band gap structure; cavity immersion; cladding; coating; colloidal crystals; microsystem; optical fiber; optical narrow-band filter; polymethylmethacrylate; shallow circular-cavity; single mode fiber; transmission spectral; wet chemical etching; Cavity resonators; Colloidal crystals; Face; Optical fiber sensors; Optical fiber theory; Photonic band gap;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Photonics and Optoelectronics (SOPO), 2012 Symposium on

Conference_Location

Shanghai

ISSN

2156-8464

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-0909-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SOPO.2012.6271095

Filename

6271095