Re: How to strip a 9 micrometer singlemode fiber?

Dendrites wrote:
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I am also considering ordering lensed fiber from OZ-Optics and OE-land.
I have high resolution translation stages from Thorlabs, but they are
not piezo controlled. And how do you finish your preliminary work? Just
by dirctly contacting the 4micron fiber( with only jacket stripped?) to
the waveguide?

I suspect you're going to need a piezostage, due to the better
positioning resolution - 10nm (not um) in X,Y and Z.

And yes, I just bring the cleaved end of the fiber into proximity with
the waveguide - not touching, but ~1um (or less) away, as observed
through a microscope.

Getting a good cleave from the fiber takes some practice - you can tell
when you have a good cleave by having a circular spot when you shine the
laser light on a piece of paper. (And the spot should be in line with
the fiber - not off to the side.) I use a Fitel Furukawa S-315 fiber
cleaver. It's manual, but the automatic ones (which would probably due
a better job) are very expensive.

I'd like to polish the cleaved tip of the fiber, but I don't have the
necessary equipment.
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