Title :
High sensitivity tapered fiber Mach-Zehnder interferometer with optical attractive near-field force for active microsensing
Author :
Nan-Kuang Chen ; Tsung-Hsun Yang ; Yi-Ning Chen ; Zhao-Ying Chen ; Shien-Kuei Liaw
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electro-Opt. Eng., Nat. United Univ., Miaoli, Taiwan
Abstract :
We demonstrate micro tapered fiber Mach-Zehnder-interferometer with one of the abrupt tapers is stretched and thinned to a diameter of 3.64 μm to strongly enhance the optical attractive force for high sensitivity cellular-dimension microsensing.
Keywords :
Mach-Zehnder interferometers; fibre optic sensors; micro-optomechanical devices; microsensors; active microsensing; high sensitivity cellular-dimension microsensing; high sensitivity tapered fiber Mach-Zehnder interferometer; microtapered fiber Mach-Zehnder-interferometer; optical attractive near-field force; Optical fiber couplers; Optical fiber polarization; Optical fiber sensors;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2013 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
