Engineering Profiles of Thermally Drawn Optical Fiber Tapers

Ivan D. Rukhlenko; Roman E. Noskov; Simon Fleming; Deepak Jain

doi:10.1109/JLT.2021.3055540

Engineering Profiles of Thermally Drawn Optical Fiber Tapers

Ivan D. Rukhlenko^*, Roman E. Noskov, Simon Fleming, Deepak Jain

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School of Electrical Engineering

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Abstract

Thermal fiber drawing is an efficient technique for producing optical fiber tapers whose operation regime gradually varies between multi-mode and single-mode. Here we present a comprehensive theoretical analysis of tapering optical fibers through changing their drawing speed on a standard fiber draw tower. We analytically calculate the drawing speed, drawing acceleration, and time needed to produce different kinds of fiber tapers and analyze the derived expressions to find the optimal fabrication parameters for the tapers. The obtained results inform how to most efficiently draw optical fiber tapers of different adiabatic shapes using the minimal pulling force for a given tapering ratio.

Original language	English
Article number	9340347
Pages (from-to)	3237-3243
Number of pages	7
Journal	Journal of Lightwave Technology
Volume	39
Issue number	10
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/JLT.2021.3055540
State	Published - 15 May 2021

Keywords

Adiabatic tapering
fiber tapers
optical fibers
tapering ratio
thermal drawing

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