Journal article
Tapered fibers embedded in silica aerogel
In
Optics Letters
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2009, Volume 34, Issue 18, pp. 2724-2726
From
Centre for Photonics and Photonics Materials, Department of Physics, University of Bath, Bath BA2 7AY, UK. L.Xiao@bath.ac.uk1
Abstract
We have embedded thin tapered fibers (with diameters down to 1 microm) in silica aerogel with low loss. The aerogel is rigid but behaves refractively like air, protecting the taper without disturbing light propagation along it. This enables a new class of fiber devices exploiting volume evanescent interactions with the aerogel itself or with dopants or gases in the pores.
| Language: | English |
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| Year: | 2009 |
| Pages: | 2724-2726 |
| ISSN: | 15394794 and 01469592 |
| Types: | Journal article |
| DOI: | 10.1364/OL.34.002724 |
