Measurement of capillary core size and taper using whispering-gallery-mode laser emission

Jonathan C. Knight; H. Steve T. Driver; Gerald Noel Robertson

doi:10.1117/12.175670

1 September 1994 Measurement of capillary core size and taper using whispering-gallery-mode laser emission

Jonathan C. Knight, H. Steve T. Driver, Gerald Noel Robertson

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Optical Engineering, Vol. 33, Issue 9, (September 1994). https://doi.org/10.1117/12.175670

Abstract

We investigate the use of core whispering-gallery modes in a cladded fiber for nondestructive characterization of the fiber core and show how such measurements can be performed by simple extension of known methods for homogeneous scatterers, if the core refractive index is significantly greater than that of the cladding. We describe the effects of dispersion on such measurements. The method is illustrated by using the core-resonance laser emission from a dye-doped solvent flowing in a capillary fiber to demonstrate a linear relationship between mode spacing and core size and to measure the taper of the fiber core.

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Jonathan C. Knight, H. Steve T. Driver, and Gerald Noel Robertson "Measurement of capillary core size and taper using whispering-gallery-mode laser emission," Optical Engineering 33(9), (1 September 1994). https://doi.org/10.1117/12.175670

Published: 1 September 1994

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