Bloch surface waves on a fiber tip
- Resource Type
- Authors
- Clement Eustache; Aude L. Lereu; Roland Salut; Antonin Moreau; Miguel Ángel Suárez; Emiliano Descrovi; Julien Lumeau; Thierry Grosjean
- Source
- SPIE Photonics West
SPIE Photonics West, Jan 2022, San Francisco, California, United States
International Conference on Elastic, Electrical, Transport, and Optical Properties in Inhomogeneous Media
International Conference on Elastic, Electrical, Transport, and Optical Properties in Inhomogeneous Media, Jul 2022, Besançon, France
- Subject
- [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-OPTICS] Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Optics [physics.optics]
[PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-OPTICS]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Optics [physics.optics]
Physics::Optics
- Language
- English
International audience; We introduce a nano-optical platform based on Bloch surface waves (BSWs) capable of exploiting the entire cleaved end facet of a multicore optical fiber. Interconnecting various fiber cores with BSWs directly at the end of a multicore fiber opens the perspective of highly compact complex optical functionalities for the design of “lab on fiber” devices. In counterpart, optical fibers provide a unique opportunity to obtain turnkey nano-optical functions addressing a vast application domain ranging from telecommunications to medical sensing. To show the full potential of our platform, we demonstrate a multiplexing function between three fiber cores.