Selective-fluid-filled photonic crystal fibers and applications

Yiping Wang; Changrui Liao; Xiaoyong Zhong; Zhengyong Li; Yingjie Liu; Jiangtao Zhou; Kaiming Yang

doi:10.1117/12.2033294

29 August 2013 Selective-fluid-filled photonic crystal fibers and applications

Yiping Wang, Changrui Liao, Xiaoyong Zhong, Zhengyong Li, Yingjie Liu, Jiangtao Zhou, Kaiming Yang

Proceedings Volume 8914, International Symposium on Photoelectronic Detection and Imaging 2013: Fiber Optic Sensors and Optical Coherence Tomography; 89140J (2013) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2033294
Event: ISPDI 2013 - Fifth International Symposium on Photoelectronic Detection and Imaging, 2013, Beijing, China

Abstract

A selective-filling technique was demonstrated to improve the optical properties of photonic crystal fibres (PCFs). Such a technique can be used to fill one or more fluid samples selectively into desired air holes. The technique is based on drilling a hole or carving a groove on the surface of a PCF to expose selected air holes to atmosphere by the use of a micromachining system comprising of a femtosecond infrared laser and a microscope. The exposed section was immersed into a fluid and the air holes are then filled through the well-known capillarity action. Provided two or more grooves are fabricated on different locations and different orientation along the fibre surface, different fluids may be filled into different airholes to form a hybrid fibre. As an example, we filled half of a pure-silica PCF by a fluid with n=1.480 by carving a rectangular groove on the fibre. Consequently, the half-filled PCF became a bandgap-guiding structure (upper half), resulted from a higher refractive index in the fluid rods than in the fibre core, and three bandgaps were observed within the wavelength range from 600 to 1700 nm. Whereas, the lower half (unfilled holes) of the fibre remains an air/silica index-guiding structure. When the hybrid PCF is bent, its bandgaps gradually narrowed, resulted from the shifts of the bandgap edges. The bandgap edges had distinct bend-sensitivities when the hybrid PCF was bent toward different directions. Especially, the bandgaps are hardly affected when the half-filled PCF was bent toward the fluid-filled region. Such unique bend properties could be used to monitor simultaneously the bend directions and the curvature of the engineering structures.

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Yiping Wang, Changrui Liao, Xiaoyong Zhong, Zhengyong Li, Yingjie Liu, Jiangtao Zhou, and Kaiming Yang "Selective-fluid-filled photonic crystal fibers and applications", Proc. SPIE 8914, International Symposium on Photoelectronic Detection and Imaging 2013: Fiber Optic Sensors and Optical Coherence Tomography, 89140J (29 August 2013); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2033294

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Microfluidics

Micromachining

Optical properties

Photonic crystal fibers

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