Fiber taper sensors fabrication with arbitrary profiles using a modified flame-brush approach

A. Felipe; G. Espíndola; Y. Wang; L. H. Negri; H. J. Kalinowski; A. S. Paterno

doi:10.1117/12.975108

7 November 2012 Fiber taper sensors fabrication with arbitrary profiles using a modified flame-brush approach

A. Felipe, G. Espíndola, Y. Wang, L. H. Negri, H. J. Kalinowski, A. S. Paterno

Proceedings Volume 8421, OFS2012 22nd International Conference on Optical Fiber Sensors; 842180 (2012) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.975108
Event: OFS2012 22nd International Conference on Optical Fiber Sensor, 2012, Beijing, China

Abstract

This work reports a method to fabricate fiber taper sensors with arbitrary profiles. It is based on the approximation of the desired taper profile function by a series of step functions. As a consequence, monotonic taper transition profiles can be constructed with a number of flame-brush passes, each one supposedly producing a stepwise uniform reduction of the fiber diameter. Differently from what is done in other methods, constant speeds in all the translation stages are used in the process. A non-symmetrical arbitrary taper profile was fabricated in a singlemode fiber to demonstrate the feasibility of the method.

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A. Felipe, G. Espíndola, Y. Wang, L. H. Negri, H. J. Kalinowski, and A. S. Paterno "Fiber taper sensors fabrication with arbitrary profiles using a modified flame-brush approach", Proc. SPIE 8421, OFS2012 22nd International Conference on Optical Fiber Sensors, 842180 (7 November 2012); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.975108

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