Pilot beams for polymer-coated silver hollow glass fibers

Yi-Wei Shi; Yuji Matsuura; Mitsunobu Miyagi

doi:10.1117/12.427928

4 June 2001 Pilot beams for polymer-coated silver hollow glass fibers

Yi-Wei Shi, Yuji Matsuura, Mitsunobu Miyagi

Proceedings Volume 4253, Optical Fibers and Sensors for Medical Applications; (2001) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.427928
Event: BiOS 2001 The International Symposium on Biomedical Optics, 2001, San Jose, CA, United States

Abstract

A fabrication condition has been newly established to transmit pilot beams in cyclic olefin polymer-coated silver (COP/Ag) hollow fibers for CO₂ laser light. The COP/Ag hollow fibers show low loss properties in the visible wavelength band of 0.5 - 0.7 micrometers without affecting the loss of CO₂ laser light significantly. Bending losses of visible light with the wavelengths of 0.63 micrometers (red) and 0.53 micrometers (green) are evaluated. It is shown that both the red and green pilot beams are successfully delivered with low losses even when the fibers are bent to the angle of 360 degrees.

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Yi-Wei Shi, Yuji Matsuura, and Mitsunobu Miyagi "Pilot beams for polymer-coated silver hollow glass fibers", Proc. SPIE 4253, Optical Fibers and Sensors for Medical Applications, (4 June 2001); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.427928

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