Measurement of fiber-cladding diameter uniformity by use of whispering-gallery modes: Nanometer resolution in diameter variations along millimeter to centimeter lengths

Optics Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 23, 2001, Pages 1867-1869

  Poon, Andrew W ^a,c   Chang, Richard K ^a   Chowdhury, Dipak Q ^b  

^a Yale University   (United States)

^b Corning Inc ^*  (United States)

^c HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBER-CLADDING;

CLADDING (COATING); FOURIER TRANSFORMS; ILLUMINATING ENGINEERING; PHOTODIODES;

OPTICAL FIBERS;

EID: 0141505013     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.26.001867     Document Type: Article

References (6)

1. M. Young, S. E. Mechels, and P. D. Hale, J. Res. Natl. Inst. Stand. Technol. 98, 203 (1993).
2. M. A. G. Abushagur and N. George, Appl. Opt. 19, 2031 (1980).
3. M. B. van der Mark and L. Bosselaar, J. Lightwave Technol. 12, 1 (1994).
4. J. F. Owen, P. W. Barber, B. J. Messinger, and R. K. Chang, Opt. Lett. 6, 272 (1981).
5. A. W. Poon and R. K. Chang, in Technical Digest of Symposium on Optical Fiber Measurement, G. W. Day, D. L. Franzen, and P. A. Williams, eds., NIST Spec. Publ. 930, 73 (1998).
6. T. A. Birks, J. C. Knight, and T. E. Dimmick, IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett. 12, 182 (2000).