Hydrofluoric acid flow etching of low-loss subwavelength-diameter biconical fiber tapers

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 21, 2010, Pages 22593-22598

  Zhang, Eric J ^a   Sacher, Wesley D ^a   Poon, Joyce K S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERBIUM; FIBER OPTIC SENSORS; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; SILICA; SURFACE TENSION;

BICONICAL FIBER TAPERS; ERBIUM DOPED SILICA; LOW LOSS; MICRO DROPLETS; MINIMAL SURFACES; OPTICAL TRANSMISSIONS; ORDER OF MAGNITUDE; SUBWAVELENGTH-DIAMETER; SURFACE-TENSION-DRIVEN FLOW;

HYDROFLUORIC ACID;

GLASS FIBER; HYDROFLUORIC ACID;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; MATERIALS TESTING; OPTICS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SURFACE PROPERTY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

HYDROFLUORIC ACID; MATERIALS TESTING; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 78049501112     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.022593     Document Type: Article

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