Two accesses to achieve air-core's selective filling of a photonic bandgap fiber

Jiangbing Du; Yange Liu; Zhi Wang; Qing Shi; Zhanyuan Liu; Qiang Fang; Jing Li; Guiyun Kai; Xiaoyi Dong

doi:10.1117/12.743409

21 November 2007 Two accesses to achieve air-core's selective filling of a photonic bandgap fiber

Jiangbing Du, Yange Liu, Zhi Wang, Qing Shi, Zhanyuan Liu, Qiang Fang, Jing Li, Guiyun Kai, Xiaoyi Dong

Proceedings Volume 6781, Passive Components and Fiber-based Devices IV; 678111 (2007) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.743409
Event: Asia-Pacific Optical Communications, 2007, Wuhan, China

Abstract

Two simple and low-cost methods for achieving selective filling of air-core photonic bandgap fibers (PBGFs) are proposed and demonstrated. In the first method, liquid paraffin was filled into a PBGF by capillary force. By a two-step filling-cleaving process, all cladding air-holes are finally blocked but the air-core remains open. In the second method, lateral erosion method by hydrofluoric acid was first used to make the cladding air-holes laterally open. Then, the laterally filled liquid paraffin made all cladding air-holes blocked and left only air-core open. With these two methods, the central hollow-core of the PBGF can be selectively filled, which allows for the fabrication of novel hybrid functional-material-silica PBGF for various applications.

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Jiangbing Du, Yange Liu, Zhi Wang, Qing Shi, Zhanyuan Liu, Qiang Fang, Jing Li, Guiyun Kai, and Xiaoyi Dong "Two accesses to achieve air-core's selective filling of a photonic bandgap fiber", Proc. SPIE 6781, Passive Components and Fiber-based Devices IV, 678111 (21 November 2007); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.743409

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