Tapered Optical Fiber Couplers Fabricated by Droplet-Based Chemical Etching
This paper presents a fabrication method for 2 × 2 twisted fiber-optic directional couplers based on biconical low-loss tapered optical fibers using a two-step wet-etching technique with hydrofluoric acid-based droplets and surface tension-driven flows. The droplet-based wet etching of op...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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IEEE
2017-01-01
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| Series: | IEEE Photonics Journal |
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| Online Access: | https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8008744/ |