PMID- 18575569
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20080821
LR  - 20190516
IS  - 1094-4087 (Electronic)
IS  - 1094-4087 (Linking)
VI  - 16
IP  - 13
DP  - 2008 Jun 23
TI  - Low-loss polarization-maintaining fusion splicing of single-mode fibers and 
      hollow-core photonic crystal fibers, relevant for monolithic fiber laser pulse 
      compression.
PG  - 9986-95
AB  - We report on highly reproducible low-loss fusion splicing of 
      polarization-maintaining single-mode fibers (PM-SMFs) and hollow-core photonic 
      crystal fibers (HC-PCFs). The PM-SMF-to-HC-PCF splices are characterized by the 
      loss of 0.62 +/- 0.24 dB, and polarization extinction ratio of 19 +/- 0.68 dB. 
      The reciprocal HC-PCF-to-PM-SMF splice loss is found to be 2.19 +/- 0.33 dB, 
      which is caused by the mode evolution in HC-PCF. The return loss in both cases 
      was measured to be -14 dB. We show that a splice defect is caused by the HC-PCF 
      cleave defect, and the lossy splice can be predicted at an early stage of the 
      splicing process. We also demonstrate that the higher splice loss compromises the 
      PM properties of the splice. Our splicing technique was successfully applied to 
      the realization of a low-loss, environmentally stable monolithic PM fiber laser 
      pulse compressor, enabling direct end-of-the-fiber femtosecond pulse delivery.
FAU - Kristensen, Jesper T
AU  - Kristensen JT
AD  - DTU Fotonik--Department of Photonics Engineering, Technical University of 
      Denmark, DK-2800 Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark.
FAU - Houmann, Andreas
AU  - Houmann A
FAU - Liu, Xiaomin
AU  - Liu X
FAU - Turchinovich, Dmitry
AU  - Turchinovich D
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
PL  - United States
TA  - Opt Express
JT  - Optics express
JID - 101137103
SB  - IM
MH  - Computer Simulation
MH  - Crystallization/methods
MH  - Equipment Design
MH  - Equipment Failure Analysis
MH  - Fiber Optic Technology/*instrumentation
MH  - *Lasers
MH  - Light
MH  - Lighting/*instrumentation
MH  - *Models, Theoretical
MH  - Photons
MH  - Refractometry/*instrumentation
MH  - Scattering, Radiation
MH  - Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted/*instrumentation
EDAT- 2008/06/26 09:00
MHDA- 2008/08/22 09:00
CRDT- 2008/06/26 09:00
PHST- 2008/06/26 09:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2008/08/22 09:00 [medline]
PHST- 2008/06/26 09:00 [entrez]
AID - 164857 [pii]
AID - 10.1364/oe.16.009986 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Opt Express. 2008 Jun 23;16(13):9986-95. doi: 10.1364/oe.16.009986.