Extremely flexible hollow fibers with 50 mu m-bore size were developed for infrared laser light delivery. The hollow fiber was inner coated with silver and a dielectric layer to enhance the reflection rate at an objective wavelength band. The silver layer was inner-plated by using the conventional silver mirror-plating technique. Concerning the fabrication parameters used up to now for 320-mu m bore-sized fibers, the target flowing rate for plating solutions was 10 ml/min. Parallelly arranged bundles of silica capillary were used to increase the cross-sectional area. To achieve the target, bundles with 4800 pieces were used for the capillary with a length of 20 cm and inner diameters of 50 mu m. The loss for the 50 mu m bore size, 10 cm length silver hollow fiber was 6 dB at the wavelength of 1 mu m. Thin dielectric layer was formed by using liquid-phase coating method for low-loss transmission of Nd:YAG and Er: YAG laser light.
[1]Sendai Natl Coll Technol, Aoba Ku, 4-16-1 Ayashi Chuo, Sendai, Miyagi 9893128, Japan;
[2]Tohoku Inst Technol, Taihaku Ku, Sendai, Miyagi 9828577, Japan;
[3]Fudan Univ, Sch Informat Sci & Engn, Shanghai 200433, Peoples R China;
[4]Tohoku Univ, Grad Sch Engn, Sendai, Miyagi 9808579, Japan
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