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Area of Science:

  • Photonics and Optical Engineering
  • Materials Science and Fabrication

Background:

  • Optical fiber tapers are crucial components in sensing, lasers, and supercontinuum generation.
  • Existing fabrication methods often involve complex setups and may lack reproducibility.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To present a novel and simple method for fabricating optical fiber tapers.
  • To demonstrate the use of plasma as a heat source for taper fabrication.
  • To assess the reproducibility and characteristics of the fabricated tapers.

Main Methods:

  • Development of a simple, plasma-based system for optical fiber taper fabrication.
  • Characterization of taper geometry, including waist diameter and length.
  • Analysis of optical properties, such as interference fringe depth and spectral range.

Main Results:

  • Successfully fabricated robust biconical optical fiber tapers with a typical waist of ~8 μm.
  • Achieved taper lengths ranging from 3 to 15 mm.
  • Demonstrated tapers with significant interference fringes (up to 12 dB) across the 1465 nm to 1599 nm spectrum.
  • Statistical evaluation confirmed good reproducibility of the tapering process.

Conclusions:

  • Plasma is a viable and novel heat source for fabricating high-quality optical fiber tapers.
  • The developed system is simple, reproducible, and suitable for research groups.
  • The fabricated tapers exhibit desirable optical properties for various applications.