Deploying a fiber optic physical infrastructure within a converged plantwide ethernet architecture fiber optic cabling systems overview figure 3 permanent link diagram the typical channel is composed of multiple assemblies connected by a combination of the optical fiber connectors on the cable assemblies ma ting into adapters. The platform is created by fusion splicing liquid core optical fiber to standard singlemode optical fiber making it fully integrated and practical a major challenge that has greatly hindered progress in liquid photonic applications. Corresponding authors a institute for electromagnetic monitoring of the environment irea, national research council cnr, naples, italy email. It is observed that the fiber behaves as dispersion shifted photonic crystal fiber for core liquid of refractive index from 1. Two types of silica multimode optical fibers were successfully integrated into 44 twillwoven and plainwoven textiles along the warp direction of the textile structures for sensing of applied load conditions. Brown the institute of optics uni y ersity of rochester rochester, new york 1 0. Osa brillouin lasing in integrated liquidcore optical fibers.
We report the fabrication and the characterization of an integrated optofluidic machzehnder interferometer based on liquid core waveguides. Continuum generation is achieved using toluene as a core medium, with. An optical fiber is a flexible, transparent fiber made by drawing glass silica or plastic to a. Simultaneous monitoring the real and imaginary parts of the. Osa integrated liquidcore optical fibers for ultraefficient nonlinear. Integrated liquidcore optical fibersultraefficient nonlinear liquid.
Micromachines free fulltext liquid core arrow waveguides. Pdf we present an approach for manufacturing liquidcore microstructured optical fiber mof with an allin fiber configuration. Brillouin lasing in integrated liquidcore optical fibers. Liquid core arrows, with their dual ability to guide the light and the fluids in the same microchannel, have shown great potential as an optofluidic tool for quantitative spectroscopic analysis. Thu pham, bhaskar banerjee, benjamin cromey, soroush mehravar, bethany skovan, hao chen, and khanh kieu, feasibility of multimodal multiphoton microscopy to facilitate surgical margin assessment in pancreatic cancer, appl. Us6011882a chemical sensing techniques employing liquid. Ramaninduced frequency shift in cs2filled integrated liquid. One of the most direct correlations between a material optical constant and an important fiber. Meltspun polymer fibers with liquid core exhibit enhanced.
Liquid core optical fibers provide a unique platform for nonlinear photonics. The particles in mf in form of chainlike clusters along the direction of external magnetic field with the. We have developed a technique that allows splicing of liquid core optical fiber lcof to standard fiber with low loss. Semiconductor optical fibres for infrared applications. Here, we describe a hybrid technology that integrates key aspects of both engineering disciplines. The platform is created by fusion splicing liquid core optical fiber to standard singlemode optical fiber making it fully integrated and practical a major challenge that has greatly hindered progress in liquidphotonic applications. Navalpostgraduateschool monterey,california thesis integratedopticalfd3er latticeaccumulators by adamf. Sep 26, 2016 a novel microfluidic chip with integrated teflon af1600 surface liquid core optical waveguide lcw modified with nano gold was proposed and fabricated in this article. Peyghambarian, integrated liquid core optical fibers for ultraefficient nonlinear liquid photonics, opt. A permeable optical fiber waveguide with a liquid core is employed as a probe for the detection or measurement of a chemical specie of interest by filling the waveguide core region with a light transmitting reagent liquid which undergoes a change in an optical characteristic thereof when exposed to the chemical specie and then inserting the filled waveguide into an environment in which the. Fiber optics products and applications 1 communication telecom datacom optical fibers fiberunit series bundled high performance fibers cable for data center and urban infrastructure indoor and outdoor cables and ul approved accessories connectors and couplers, installation aid systems.
Pier m online highly coherent supercontinuum generation in. With a 100 db dynamic range, the olp85 and 85p handheld optical power meters are professional, versatile, and compact instru ments perfect for any fiber optic network power or loss test applications. Hybrid soliton dynamics in liquidcore fibres nature. We reported the first fabrication of submicromicrodiameter liquid core optical fiber. This had an amplified spontaneous emission ase bandwidth fwhm of 90nm, peak wavelength of 1650nm and typical operating current of 500 ma. Their theoretical background is summarized in a comprehensive way. We can now envision all fiber optoelectronics, where electronic devices can be built within the micro to nanoscale holes of a mof, and light generation, modulation, and detection can all be performed within a fiber figure 3. This device is fabricated firstly by using femtosecond laser micromachining and a fusing splicing technique to create an inner air cavity with a suspended fiber core, then an open microchannel is drilled on the top of the inner air cavity, and finally a. Single mode dispersion shifted photonic crystal fiber with. Because of the special structural characteristics of the mf, it is easy integrated with the optical fiber. Optoelectronic capillary sensors in microfluidic and pointof.
A distributed temperature sensor based on liquidcore optical fibers article pdf available in journal of lightwave technology lt. As an example, we demonstrated ultralow threshold raman generation in an integrated cs2 filled lcof. This research addresses the development of lowcost polymer optical fibers and waveguides with integrated gain and optical switching functionalities. We report brillouin lasing in an integrated liquidcore optical fiber filled with neat cs2. An hchannel structure fixed on a microscope glass slide utilizes a. We have developed a novel integrated platform for liquid photonics based on liquid core optical fiber lcof.
Broadband light with liquid core research scientists from jena have produced broadband laser light in the midinfrared range with the help of liquid filled optical fibers. Integrated optofluidic machzehnder interferometer based on. Ramaninduced frequency shift in cs2filled integrated. Pdf a distributed temperature sensor based on liquid. Submicro and microdiameter liquid core optical fiber. Advanced photonics journal of applied remote sensing. Request pdf liquidcore optical fibers the liquidcore fibers are. In this paper, a liquidcore photonic crystal fiber lcpcf with small hollowcore filled by chalcogenide material cs 2 is. Both fibers are stripped from their polymer sheet 250 mm jacket diameter only at the ends where the 125 mm diameter cladding including core is exposed. Integrated hollowcore fibers for nonlinear optofluidic. The purpose of this article is to provide the nontechnical reader with an overview of. Integrated surfaceenhanced raman spectroscopy chip based on. Chapter 10 optical fibers and fiberoptic communications tom g. The sensor is assembled by aligning a singlemode optical fiber 8.
The plastic optical fiber is made out of a plastic such as acrylic pmma as the core material and fluorinated or perfluorinated polymers as the cladding materials. The light is confined inside a low refractive index liquid core by antiresonant reflecting optical waveguide. Hunsperger, springerverlag optical fiber communications, j. Integrated liquidcore optical fibers for ultraefficient nonlinear liquid photonics. The linewidth of the single frequency liquidbased brillouin laser was estimated to be fiber. A liquid core optical wave guide, particularly for long pathlengh absorbance spectroscopy. Theory of electrically controllable longperiod gratings built in liquidcrystal fibers. Optical fiber magnetic field sensor based on birefringence. Mhz allpm fiber frequency comb able to maintain optical coherence both under vibrations of up to 0. Characterization of integrated fiber optic sensors in smart. In order to specify the characteristics of optical fibres and systems operating with optical amplifiers and the wdm technique, many new recommendations were developed in itut.
An optical fiber magnetic field sensor based on the birefringence of magnetic fluid is proposed by filling the magnetic fluid into a hollow core waveguide. Optical coupling between external sourcesdetectors and the waveguides is achieved through optical fibers inserted into the liquid core waveguides at the edge of the chips. A method to fabricate allinfiber liquid microcells has been. Types of fibers stepindex multimode n2 n2 n1 n2 n2 n1 n2 n2. Graphene heterostructure integrated optical fiber bragg. An optical fiber is a flexible, transparent fiber made by drawing glass or plastic to a diameter slightly thicker than that of a human hair. Colloidal pbse quantum dotsolutionfilled liquidcore. We have developed a technique that allows splicing of liquid core optical fiber lcof to standard singlemode optical fiber with low loss integrated platform for liquid photonics based on liquid core optical fiber lcof. Bragggratingstabilised external cavity lasers in optical. Liquid core optical fiber for nonlinear frequency generation osa. Up to date, a wide range of liquid core optical fiber sensors has been developed for ri.
Liquidcore optical fibers request pdf researchgate. So, from the above discussion we have figured out our desired optimized structure d 1. Soliton dynamics in liquidcore optical fibers dissertation. The pdms prepolymer coats the inserted fiber, reducing reflections and scattering at the optical interface, thus increasing the coupling efficiency. Realization of allinfiber liquidcore microstructured. All journal articles featured in fiber and integrated optics vol 39 issue 2. Integrated tunable liquid optical fiber lab on a chip. This device uniquely uses flow injection fibased splitflow sample introduction through a fallingdrop interface. In this paper, we introduce a liquid core antiresonant reflecting optical waveguide arrow as a novel optofluidic device that can be used to create innovative and highly functional microsensors.
Specialty optical fibers there are a lot of specialty optical fibers. This is the first observation of brillouin lasing in an optical fiber filled with a liquid, to the best of our knowledge. The platform is created by fusion splicing liquid core optical fiber to standard singlemode optical fiber making it fully integrated and practical a major. Osa integrated infiber coupler for a whisperinggallery. The liquid core waveguide has a relatively long pathlength and can be configured to fit within a relatively small space. In this study, we develop a device transfer technique to integrate device assemblies based on 2d materials onto an. Jun 29, 2017 the discovery of optical solitons being understood as temporally and spectrally stationary optical states has enabled numerous innovations among which, most notably, supercontinuum light sources. Mendez specialty optical fibers handbook prelims final proof page xviii 31. Osa integrated liquidcore optical fibers for ultra. An optical fiber is a cylindrical dielectric waveguide made of lowloss materials such as silica glass. Smartclass fiber inspectionready optical power meters. We report brillouin lasing in an integrated liquid core optical fiber filled with neat cs2.
Microfluidic flow rate detection based on integrated. Conference proceedings papers presentations journals. Deposition of semiconductors and metals from chemical precursors onto planar substrates is a welldeveloped science and technology for microelectronics. The birefringence characteristics of magnetic fluids with different concentrations tuned by magnetic field were investigated under different magnetic fields when the filled hollow core. As an example, we demonstrated ultralow threshold raman generation in an integrated. Hybrid optical fibers an innovative platform for in.
A transceiver is the interface between the electronic data processing and the optical data transmission line. Fabrication and effect study of microfluidic sers chip with. The basic material used in the manufacture of optical. We extensively describe the methods for integrating host materials inside. An integrated in fiber coupler is proposed and demonstrated, which can excite whisperinggallery mode wgm in a microsphere resonator. For high volume, short range optical interconnects, e. Photonics crystal fibers doped active optical fibers liquid core optical fibers if have time large mode area optical fibers chiral core coupled optical fibers polarizing fibers. Optical fiber magnetic field sensor based on birefringence in.
We report the design and the fabrication of an integrated optofluidic ring resonator based on liquid core antiresonant reflecting optical waveguide arrow operating around. However, it requires complex processing to manipulate in cladding holes, and it is hard to be integrated on a single chip. Osa integrated liquidcore optical fiber for nonlinear. Scientists generate supercontinuum light source using liquid core optical fibers and reveal a new type of soliton dynamics. Optoelectronic fibers and textiles wei yan et alsete alloy semiconductor core optical fibers kaimin huang et alhybrid photoniccrystal fiber christos markos et althis content was downloaded from ip address 207. Photonics dictionary liquid core optical fiber multimode straight fiber capable of transporting linearly polarized light with any incident polarization angle, and in which no form of internal stress can develop that could lead to birefringence. Senior, prentice hall fundamentals of photonics, b. Integrated hollow core fibers for nonlinear optofluidic applications limin xiao, natalie v. Integrated tunable liquid optical fiber request pdf. Optical and micro ct characterization of the liquidcore. Their task is to slightly increase and decrease the refractive. Optical waveguide theory georgia institute of technology. Several asymmetric machzehnder interferometers have been realized with standard silicon technology.
May 01, 2014 in this paper, we investigate the raman interaction, in particular, the rifs, of copropagating pulses in an integrated liquid core optical fiber ilcof filled with cs 2. Integrated liquid core optical fibers for ultraefficient nonlinear liquid photonics. Integrated liquidcore optical fibers ultraefficient nonlinear liquid photonics article pdf available in optics express 207. Optical fibers are an established platform for both communications technology and fundamental research in photonics. Oct 15, 2015 this opens novel opportunities for implementing fibers with more complex integrated functionalities such as self. Optical fibers are used most often as a means to transmit light between the two ends of the fiber and find wide usage in fiberoptic communications, where they permit transmission over longer distances and at higher bandwidths data transfer rates than. Integrated liquidcore optical fibers ultraefficient. Design and experimental details for implementation in optical fiber, our laser was built around an inp gain chip thorlabs. Basics of fiber optics mark curranbrian shirk fiber optics, which is the science of light transmission through very fine glass or plastic fibers, continues to be used in more and more applications due to its inherent advantages over copper conductors. The device has been realized by exploiting an innovative threedimensional hydrodynamic. Any reader interested in designing or actively working with optical devices must have a firm grasp of the principles of lightwave propagation.
Aug 14, 2001 a novel miniaturized capillary electrophoresis ce system is described where a teflon afcoated silica capillary serves both as the separation channel and as a transversely illuminated liquid core waveguide. They can be seamlessly integrated onto surfaces with different geometries where detection for nearfield signal is desired. Physical deposite method was used to integrate teflon af1600 lcw into microchannel. A novel method to fabricate microchannels into fused silica capillaries and hollow fibres by a highvoltage highfrequency corona discharge induced by a tesla coil is demonstrated.
Pipeline distributed fiber optic monitoring system source. It has a central core in which the light is guided, embedded in an outer. The smartclass fiber olp85 and 85p combine passfail fiber inspection and optical power measurement opm into one solution. Optical fiber magnetic field sensor based on birefringence in liquid core optical waveguide. Integrated planar optical waveguide interferometer. Highsensitivity gas sensors based on gaspermeable liquid. Liquid core optical fibers is a very promising platform for refractive index sensing, as they inherently integrate optical detection with microfluidics, thus allowing for continuous online monitoring of liquid samples in a contained, highly integrated manner. Fundamental optical phenomena of direct impact to the behavior of fiber optic devices e.
Photonic integrated circuits for optical communication. Tapered liquidcore allfibre devices for lowthreshold raman. Fundamentals of optical waveguides is an essential resource for any researcher, professional or student involved in optics and communications engineering. Integrated liquid core waveguides for nonlinear optics.
In this work an integrated tunable optofluidic liquid core liquid cladding l2 optical fiber is presented. First italian experiment with a buried optical cable pdf. The stokes pulse experienced a substantial frequency shift at low pump powers due to the molecular contribution to the xpm and the raman slow light effect. Deploying a fiber optic physical infrastructure within a. Optical fibers typically include a core surrounded by a transparent cladding material. We demonstrate an optically tunable frequency shift in an all fiber based system using a carbon disulfide cs 2 filled integrated liquidcore optical fiber ilcof and copropagating pulses of comparable temporal lengths. Highly coherent supercontinuum generation in the normal dispersion liquidcore photonic crystal fiber by z. Highaspect ratio microchannels fabricated in fused silica. A liquid core waveguide monolithically integrated with silica waveguides is demonstrated as a nonlinear optical device. We describe a liquidcore optical fiber based on capillary tubing of teflon af 2400, which is a clear, amorphous.
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