Near field modelling and measurement of tapered optical fibre devices
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Moar, P.N.; Huntington, S.T.; Katsifolis, J.; Cahill, L.W.; Nugent, K.A.; Roberts, A.
- Source
- Conference Proceedings. LEOS '97. 10th Annual Meeting IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society 1997 Annual Meeting LEOS '97 Lasers and Electro-Optics Society Annual Meeting, 1997. LEOS '97 10th Annual Meeting. Conference Proceedings., IEEE. 2:54-55 vol.2 1997
- Subject
- Photonics and Electrooptics
Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Optical fiber devices
Optical fibers
Optical fiber communication
Optical fiber sensors
Optical refraction
Optical waveguides
Optical microscopy
Optical surface waves
Optical variables control
Refractive index
- Language
- ISSN
- 1092-8081
An adaptive finite difference beam propagation method (FD-BPM) technique has been used to successfully model the behavior of the evanescent field of single mode optical fibre tapers. Good agreement with results obtained with a near field optical microscope have been made.