Journal article
Tapered fibers embedded in silica aerogel
Centre for Photonics and Photonics Materials, Department of Physics, University of Bath, Bath BA2 7AY, UK. L.Xiao@bath.ac.uk1
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 |