Mechanical Splicing of Hollow Core Photonic Crystal Fiber with Single Mode Fiber for Gas Sensing

Parmar, Vinod and Bhatnagar, Randhir and Srivastava, Deepa and Kumar, Asha and Kapur, Pawan (2012) Mechanical Splicing of Hollow Core Photonic Crystal Fiber with Single Mode Fiber for Gas Sensing. Journal of Instrumentation Society of India, 42 (4). pp. 251-254. ISSN 0970-9983

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Abstract

Precision Mechanical Splicing of Hollow Core Photonic Crystal Fiber (HC-PCF) with Single Mode Fiber (SMF) is a challenge due to different numerical aperture (NA), core diameter and mode field diameter (MFD) of these two fibers. Presently, controlled arc fusion splicing technique is used to permanently splice these two fibers but this technique leads to losses due to PCF air hole collapse making it unsuitable for gas sensing applications. The results of new technique for mechanical splicing of PCF and SMF fibers with gap adjustments and known defined optical power coupling, without PCF air hole collapse is presented in this paper and these results will be helpful in remote PCF gas sensor design.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: Photonics; Optical Fiber Sensor; Mechanical splice; Photonics Crystal Fiber; PCS Gas Sensor; Sensors and Transducers
Subjects: CSIO > Photonics Instrumentation
Divisions: Photonics Instrumentation
Depositing User: Ms. J Shrivastav
Date Deposited: 16 Dec 2013 12:44
Last Modified: 16 Dec 2013 12:44
URI: http://csioir.csio.res.in/id/eprint/373

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