Fusion splicing holey fibers and single-mode fibers: A simple method to reduce loss and increase strength

M. L.V. Tse, Hwa Yaw Tam, L. B. Fu, B. K. Thomas, L. Dong, Chao Lu, Ping Kong Alexander Wai

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Abstract

We demonstrate a novel method for low-loss splicing Ge-doped holey fibers (HF) with subwavelength core size and high numerical aperture fibers by using a conventional fusion splicer. We found that a large overlap distance of the fibers during fusion would decrease the splice loss and increase the splice strength. The lowest splice loss achieved for a fiber with a core diameter of 1.27 μm and air-filling fraction of >0.95 was ∼1 dB at 1550 nm, with a bend failure radius of 0.8 cm. With the same method, we also observed improvement in terms of loss and strength with larger core size HF.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)164-166
Number of pages3
JournalIEEE Photonics Technology Letters
Volume21
Issue number3
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 12 Feb 2009

Keywords

  • Optical fiber connecting
  • Optical fiber splicing
  • Photonic crystal fiber

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
  • Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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