Fiber taper rig using a simplified heat source and the flame-brush technique
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Graf, Jean C.; Teston, Silvio A.; de Barba, Pedro V.; Dallmann, Jeferson; Lima, Jose A. S.; Lima, José A. S.; Kalinowski, Hypolito J.; Paterno, Aleksander S.
- Source
- 2009 SBMO/IEEE MTT-S International Microwave and Optoelectronics Conference (IMOC) Microwave and Optoelectronics Conference (IMOC), 2009 SBMO/IEEE MTT-S International. :621-624 Nov, 2009
- Subject
- Fields, Waves and Electromagnetics
Photonics and Electrooptics
Network topology
Optical buffering
Optical fiber networks
Telecommunication traffic
Optical packet switching
Traffic control
Throughput
Optical interconnections
Computer architecture
Circuit topology
- Language
- ISSN
- 1679-4389
This paper presents the implementation of an automated fiber optic taper rig capable of manufacturing fiber optic tapers with diameters in the micron and sub-micron range. The implemented taper rig uses the flame-brush technique to taper the fiber optic with a heat source made by a low cost commercial air aspirated/butane/propane refillable and controllable micro-torch. Adiabatic tapers with exponential waist profiles, tapering excess loss of less than 1% and with diameters in the micron range are reported and the feasibility of such a simple heat source is demonstrated for the fabrication of fiber optic tapers. The taper rig has the dimensions and structure to manufacture tapers in the sub-micron range, but such tapers were not presented in this work.