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Paper Abstract
A rugged hollow fiber is fabricated by liquid-phase coating techniques. A silica glass capillary is used as the substrate and a vitreous film is firstly coated on the inner surface of the capillary to protect the glass tube from moisture. This protective coating keeps the thin-wall glass tube away from damage due to the following silver plating process. On the protective coating, a silver film is deposited by the conventional mirror plating technique. Subsequently, a polymer film is coated on the silver film to reduce transmission loss by employing interference effect of the polymer film. Fabrication processes and transmission properties of the rugged polymer-coated silver hollow fiber were discussed. The loss for the 700-μm-bore size, 1-m-length hollow fiber was 2 dB under straight configuration, and 3.5 dB under the configuration of a 270 degree bending with a 15-mm bending radius at the wavelength of 2.94 μm.
Paper Details
Date Published: 20 March 2013
PDF: 9 pages
Proc. SPIE 8576, Optical Fibers and Sensors for Medical Diagnostics and Treatment Applications XIII, 857602 (20 March 2013); doi: 10.1117/12.2002364
Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 8576:
Optical Fibers and Sensors for Medical Diagnostics and Treatment Applications XIII
Israel Gannot, Editor(s)
PDF: 9 pages
Proc. SPIE 8576, Optical Fibers and Sensors for Medical Diagnostics and Treatment Applications XIII, 857602 (20 March 2013); doi: 10.1117/12.2002364
Show Author Affiliations
Katsumasa Iwai, Sendai National College of Technology (Japan)
Mitsunobu Miyagi, Tohoku Institute of Technology (Japan)
Mitsunobu Miyagi, Tohoku Institute of Technology (Japan)
Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 8576:
Optical Fibers and Sensors for Medical Diagnostics and Treatment Applications XIII
Israel Gannot, Editor(s)
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