Arc fusion splicing of hollow-core photonic bandgap fibers for gas-filled fiber cells

被引：113

作者：

Thapa, R. ^{[1
]}

Knabe, K. ^{[1
]}

Corwin, K. L. ^{[1
]}

Washburn, B. R. ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Kansas State Univ, Dept Phys, Manhattan, KS 66506 USA

来源：

OPTICS EXPRESS | 2006年 / 14卷 / 21期

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D O I：

10.1364/OE.14.009576

中图分类号：

O43 [光学];

学科分类号：

070207 ; 0803 ;

摘要：

The difficulty of fusion splicing hollow-core photonic bandgap fiber (PBGF) to conventional step index single mode fiber (SMF) has severely limited the implementation of PBGFs. To make PBGFs more functional we have developed a method for splicing a hollow-core PBGF to a SMF using a commercial arc splicer. A repeatable, robust, low-loss splice between the PBGF and SMF is demonstrated. By filling one end of the PBGF spliced to SMF with acetylene gas and performing saturation spectroscopy, we determine that this splice is useful for a PBGF cell. (c) 2006 Optical Society of America

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页码：9576 / 9583

页数：8

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