TY - JOUR AU - Ertman, Slawomir AU - Bielska, Monika AU - Czapla, Aleksandra AU - Domosławski, Krzysztof AU - Chychłowski, Miłosz AU - Reszka, Karolina AU - Woliński, Tomasz R. PY - 2014/09/30 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Photochemical bonding of special optical fibers JF - Photonics Letters of Poland JA - Photonics Lett. Pol. VL - 6 IS - 3 SE - Articles DO - 10.4302/photon. lett. pl.v6i3.520 UR - https://www.photonics.pl/PLP/index.php/letters/article/view/6-40 SP - pp. 114-116 AB - The most popular method for permanent connecting of an optical fibers is a thermal bonding with a fusion or filament splicers. However this method in some cases is not suitable, for example if connected fibers are made of materials with different melting temperatures (i.e. silica and &ldquo;soft glass fibers) or in the case of microstructured optical fibers filled with materials, which are highly sensitive for high temperature (i.e. organic materials such a liquid crystals). In this work we will present some practical issues of an alternative method of permanent connecting of various types of optical fibers by gluing with use of photo-curable adhesives. <br /> <br /> Full Text: <a class="file" href="/PLP/index.php/letters/article/view/6-40/360" target="_parent">PDF</a> <br /> <br /> <strong>References</strong> <ol> <li> J. Ballato and A. F. Abouraddy, "Feature issue introduction: specialty optical fibers", Opt. Mater. Express 2, 1680-1682 (2012) <a class="file" href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/OME.2.001680" target="_parent"> CrossRef </a> </li> <li> I. Hatakeyama and H. Tsuchiya, "Fusion splices for single-mode optical fibers", IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics 14, 614-619 (1978) <a class="file" href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/JQE.1978.1069843" target="_parent"> CrossRef </a> </li> <li> K. Inada, O. Watanabe and H. Taya, Splicing of Fibers by the Fusion Method, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications 4, 706 &ndash; 713 (1986) <a class="file" href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/JSAC.1986.1146381" target="_parent"> CrossRef </a> </li> <li> L. Xiao, M.S. Demokan, W. Jin, Y. Wang and C. Zhao, Fusion Splicing Photonic Crystal Fibers and Conventional Single-Mode Fibers: Microhole Collapse Effect, J. Lightwave Technol. 25, 3563 &ndash; 3574 (2007) <a class="file" href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/JLT.2007.907787" target="_parent"> CrossRef </a> </li> <li> R.Al-Mahrous, R.Caspary and W.Kowalsky, A thermal splicing method to join silica and fluoride fibers, J. Lightwave Technol. 32 302&ndash;308 (2014) <a class="file" href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/JLT.2013.2290803" target="_parent"> CrossRef </a> </li> <li> S. Ertman, A. H. Rodr&iacute;guez, M. M. Tefelska, M. S. Chychłowski, D. Pysz, R. Buczyński, E. Nowinowski-Kruszelnicki, R. Dąbrowski, and T. R. Woliński, Index guiding photonic liquid crystal fibers for practical applications, J. Lightwave Technol. 30, 1208 - 1214 (2012) <a class="file" href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/JLT.2011.2172393" target="_parent"> CrossRef </a> </li> <li> M. M. Kozak, W. Kowalsky and R. Caspary, Low-loss glue splicing method to join silica and fluoride fibers, Electron. Lett. 41, 21&ndash;22, (2005) <a class="file" href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1049/el:20052141" target="_parent"> CrossRef </a> </li> <li> R. Al-Mahrous, R. Caspary, and W. Kowalsky, A Glue Splicing Method to Join Silica and Fluoride Fibers With Low Attenuation, J. Lightwave Technol. 32, 1669-1673 (2014) <a class="file" href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/JLT.2014.2309349" target="_parent"> CrossRef </a> </li> </ol> ER -