Journal
IEEE JOURNAL OF SELECTED TOPICS IN QUANTUM ELECTRONICS
Volume 25, Issue 3, Pages -Publisher
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2019.2893757
Keywords
Nanastructured fibers; polarimetry; optical metasurfaces; transfer nanolithography
Categories
Funding
- Icelandic Research Fund [152098051]
- Air Force Office for Scientific Research under MURI [FA9550-14-1-0389, FA9550-16-1-0136]
Ask authors/readers for more resources
A simple, cost-effective, and high-throughput method of patterning an optical fiber facet using template stripping to transfer a gold pattern to a UV-curable hybrid polymer is presented. The template stripping transfer method is demonstrated with two different approaches: A fiber exposure approach where the position of the transferred nanostructure relative to the fiber can be aligned by optical curing of polymer through the fiber, and a flood exposure approach that allows the transfer of a larger area of nanostructure. An in-line metasurface polarimeter patterned on a 1550-nm single-mode fiber facet using this technique is reported, demonstrating the capacity of the miniaturization of the metasurface polarimeter. The demonstrated fiber-based metasurface polarimeters are ultracompact, cost-effective, robust, simple, and deliver high-performance polarization measurements. They are fully viable alternatives to existing solutions with applications mainly in polarization state generation and fiber optics communication.
Authors
I am an author on this paper
Click your name to claim this paper and add it to your profile.
Reviews
Recommended
No Data Available