In this study, beam divergence through an optical fiber has been controlled through shaping of the optical fiber tip using a CO₂ laser, which make the beam divergence smaller than the conventional diamond wheel cleaving method. Precise length cleaving of an optical fiber inserted in a ferrule using a femtosecond laser has also been investigated with respect to changes of the laser pulse energy. A ribbon fiber composed of 12 optical fibers could be cut precisely at different lengths in a micrometer scale.
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