• Journal of Sensor Science and Technology
• /
• v.15 no.4
• /
• pp.263-268
• /
• 2006

We have demonstrated a highly sensitive temperature sensor using an etched single mode fiber with a thermally expanded core region. Large core size of thermally expanded core facilitates access to evanescent wave by the wet etching. The etched region was surrounded by a low dispersive external medium with high thermo-optic coefficient. Due to the large difference between the dispersion property of the fiber and that of the external medium, the device reveals a cut-off properties at spectral region. The cut-off wavelength was shifted by the variations of the environmental temperatures because of thermo-optic effect of the external medium. The sensitivity of the fabricated device was found to be $45nm/^{\circ}C$.

• Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
• /
• v.21 no.1
• /
• pp.12-15
• /
• 2010

In this paper, we have proposed and demonstrated a simple fiber-optic temperature sensor based on the bending loss of a TEC(thermally expended core) fiber attached to a bi-metal. The deformation of the bi-metal caused by the change in its temperature induces the bending loss of the TEC fiber. The experimental result shows that the temperature sensitivity and operation temperature range of the device are controllable through the adjustment of the structure of the expanded core fiber. The fabrication procedure of the device is described in detail.

• Proceedings of the Optical Society of Korea Conference
• /
• 2006.07a
• /
• pp.521-522
• /
• 2006

Thermally expanded core fiber (TEC-fiber) Bragg gratings have been fabricated and their transmission spectrums have been analyzed. The measured spectrum shows the characteristic peak splitting caused by the grating pair formed over the expanded section that has the effective index axial distribution, which could be employed for high resolution fiber sensors. An analysis on the spectrum can also give useful informations on the effective index profile of the TEC-fiber.

• Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
• /
• v.5 no.2
• /
• pp.304-310
• /
• 1994

The use of thermally expanded core (TEe) fibers fabricated by thermal diffusion of dopants such as $GeO_{2}$ in hybrid fiber components has an advantage of eliminating lenses for collimation and focusing. An electric furnace is fabricated to heat the fibers locally for the core expansion. We observed an expansion of the mode size at $1.3\mu\textrm{m}$ wavelength by 27% after treating a section of single mode optical fiber at $1250^{\circ}C$ for 10 hours. hours.

• Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
• /
• v.16 no.1
• /
• pp.79-84
• /
• 2005

To increase the tolerance for passive fiber alignment, a single mode polymer waveguide with a large core structure is demonstrated. The large core waveguide is designed to have a mode profile comparable to that of a thermally expanded core (TEC) fiber, and it can be connected to a high-contrast waveguide through an adiabatic transition taper structure. From a waveguide with a rectangular core of 25 ${\times}$ 25 ${\mu}{\textrm}{m}$$^2$, a single mode propagation is observed when the index contrast is as low as 0.0005. A UV-cured injection molding method is used to fabricate the thick core structure. Due to the large mode size, the insertion loss of the device is below 0.5 dB until the lateral displacement of the TEC fiber is 4.5 ${\mu}{\textrm}{m}$. The low insertion loss is important for reproducible passive alignment.

• Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
• /
• v.16 no.6
• /
• pp.494-499
• /
• 2005

We have demonstrated a fiber short-wavelength filter with a good cut-off property using dissimilar dispersive properties between? a thermally expanded cored fiber and an external medium. Side-polishing is applied to coupling between the fiber and the external medium. The experimental results revealed that the bend edge wavelength can be adjusted by controlling the degree of core expansion. Futhermore, the sharpness of wavelength response? was significantly? improved by employing expanded core fiber instead of a conventional single mode fiber. Tuning range of the band edge wavelength exceeded 400 m based on thermo-optic effect of the external medium.

• Proceedings of the Optical Society of Korea Conference
• /
• 2006.07a
• /
• pp.511-512
• /
• 2006

• Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
• /
• v.2 no.2
• /
• pp.80-82
• /
• 1998

A new fiber coupling scheme using thermally over-expanded core(TOEC) fiber was proposed and demonstrated. In the coupling experiment between 1.3${\mu}{\textrm}{m}$ FP-LD and the proposed TOEC fiber with a tapered hemispherical microlens. superior performances such as a long working distance, a high coupling efficiency, and large misalignment tolerances were verified experimentally.

• Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
• /
• v.19 no.3
• /
• pp.169-174
• /
• 2008

In this paper, we have presented techniques to reduce the splicing loss between standard single mode fiber and high ${\Delta}$ single mode fiber based on the mode expanding and mode evolution induced by thermal treatment of the fibers. The experimental results show that mechanical splicing loss can be reduced from 2.3 dB to 0.1 dB through proper thermal treatment of the high ${\Delta}$ fiber. Meanwhile, we achieved $0.2{\sim}0.4dB$ of low splicing loss between two fibers by heating the splicing region using electric arcing or an oxygen flame.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
• /
• 2007.06a
• /
• pp.410-410
• /
• 2007

광섬유 내에 첨가되어 있는 $GeO_2$ 등의 물질을 얼 확산시켜서 만드는 열확산 코어 광섬유는 열확산 기술에 따른 광섬유의 MFD(Mode Field Diameter)를 국소적으로 확대하여 굴절률 분포를 변화시킨 광섬유로 혹의 비틀림 및 간격에 대한 허용범위가 넓어지게 하여 접속 손실을 감소시킬 수 있다. 본 연구에서는 열확산 코어 광섬유를 제조할 때 안정된 얼확산 문제를 해결하기 위한 방법으로 트윈 토치를 이용한 프레임 브러싱 기법의 안정화된 코어 확장형 광섬유 제조시스템을 제작하였다. 또한 제작된 열확산 코어 광섬유 제조시스템을 이용하여 단일모드 조건을 만족하는 다양한 종류의 열확산 코어 광섬유가 제작됨을 확인할 수 있었다.