The Ultimate Microfiber.

Polarization-maintaining optical microfiber.

We have successfully demonstrated a polarization-maintaining (PM) fused silica microfiber by adiabatically tapering a conventional PM fiber. Compared to standard single-mode microfibers, the proposed PM microfibers exhibit robust polarization, preserving characteristics under the presence of external perturbations, such as bending. A polarization-extinction ratio of 16 dB is typically obtained ...

Optical Microfiber Passive Components

A review of passive components based on optical microfibers is presented. KeywordsOptical fibre tapers; optical microfibers, fibre devices, optical fibre nanowires

"The ultimate diagnosis".

IN a short article in the British Medical Journal last year, a general practitioner recorded that one day the local postman said to him: "Doctor, most of those who pass away round here are patients of yours." It would certainly be true to say that many of those who have passed away in the Belmont area of Belfast during the past forty years were patients of mine, and this is a matter of mingled ...

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Microfiber Optical Sensors: A Review

With diameter close to or below the wavelength of guided light and high index contrast between the fiber core and the surrounding, an optical microfiber shows a variety of interesting waveguiding properties, including widely tailorable optical confinement, evanescent fields and waveguide dispersion. Among various microfiber applications, optical sensing has been attracting increasing research i...