Uniform polymer-film formation in 100-um-bore hollow fiber for Er:YAG laser transmission

Katsumasa Iwai; Masanao Suzuki; Mitsunobu Miyagi; Yi-Wei Shi; Yuji Matsuura

doi:10.1117/12.905925

30 January 2012 Uniform polymer-film formation in 100-μm-bore hollow fiber for Er:YAG laser transmission

Katsumasa Iwai, Masanao Suzuki, Mitsunobu Miyagi, Yi-Wei Shi, Yuji Matsuura

Proceedings Volume 8218, Optical Fibers and Sensors for Medical Diagnostics and Treatment Applications XII; 821804 (2012) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.905925
Event: SPIE BiOS, 2012, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

Flexible 100-μm-bore hollow fibers were developed for Er:YAG laser delivery. The hollow fiber was inner coated with silver and dielectric layer to enhance the reflection rate at an objective wavelength band. A dielectric layer is formed by using the liquid-phase coating technique. Micro tube pump with an inner diameter of 300-μm is newly used to flow polymer solution through the ultra-thin silver hollow fiber with a constant speed. Fabrication process and transmission properties of the ultra thin polymer-coated silver hollow fiber were discussed. The loss for the 100-μm-bore size, 10-cm-length polymer-coated silver hollow fiber was 1.7 dB at the wavelength of 2.94 μm.

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Katsumasa Iwai, Masanao Suzuki, Mitsunobu Miyagi, Yi-Wei Shi, and Yuji Matsuura "Uniform polymer-film formation in 100-μm-bore hollow fiber for Er:YAG laser transmission", Proc. SPIE 8218, Optical Fibers and Sensors for Medical Diagnostics and Treatment Applications XII, 821804 (30 January 2012); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.905925

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