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레이저를 이용한 광섬유 곡률 형상 제어 및 초정밀 클리빙 기술

Precision Cutting and Cleaving of Optical Fiber with Femtosecond and CO₂ Laser

Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering 2017;34(9):633-638.
Published online: September 1, 2017

1 광주과학기술원 고등광기술연구소

2 조선대학교 광기술공학과

3 ㈜광주연합기술지주 기술상업화팀

1 Advanced Photonics Research Institute, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology

2 Department of Photonic Engineering, Chosun University

3 Technology Commercialization Team, Gwangju Technology Holdings

#E-mail: ibson@gist.ac.kr, TEL: +82-62-715-3337, FAX: +82-62-715-3419
• Received: August 17, 2016   • Revised: April 20, 2017   • Accepted: May 8, 2017

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Precision Cutting and Cleaving of Optical Fiber with Femtosecond and CO₂ Laser
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Fig. 1 CO2 laser machining system
Fig. 2 Schematic diagram of CO2 laser cutting of optical fiber
Fig. 3 Optical microscope image and beam profile of optical fiber cut by CO2 laser with different laser scan speed and power
Fig. 4 Principal radius of curvature. (‘h’ represents the height of the circle and ‘s’ denotes length of the circle)
Fig. 5 Simulation results of beam divergence angles with respect to radius of curvatures
Fig. 6 (a) Microscope, (b) SEM image of ribbon fiber cut by CO2 laser with scan speed = 30 mm/s, P = 8.3 W
Fig. 7 Femtosecond laser machining system
Fig. 8 Schematic diagram of femtosecond laser cleaving of optical fiber
Fig. 9 Cross sections microscope image of optical fiber cleaved by femtosecond laser with pulse energy of (a) 9.5 μJ, (b) 11.02 μJ
Fig. 10 Confocal microscope image of optical fiber cleaved by femtosecond laser with pulse energy of (a) 9.5 μJ, (b) 11.02 μJ
Fig. 11 Optical microscope image of cleaved optical fiber with different length of (a) 300 μm, (b) 480 μm, (c) 1000 μm
Fig. 12 Optical microscope image of cleaved ribbon fiber
Precision Cutting and Cleaving of Optical Fiber with Femtosecond and CO₂ Laser

Specification of CO2 laser source

Specification
Laser power 55 W
Wavelength 10.6 μm
Power stability 3%
M2 < 1.2
Beam size 1.8 ± 0.2 mm
Bema divergence 7.5 ± 0.5 mrad
Polarization Linear

Beam divergence angle of optical fiber with different radius of curvature

CO2 laser processing Radius of
curvature
Angle
Experimental Simulation
(a) Normal 18.76° 18.33°
(b) Scan speed
= 30 mm/s
P = 8.3 W
113.8 μm 16.03° 16.87°
(c) Scan speed
= 1 mm/s,
P = 2.3W
64.4 μm, 14.2° 14.88°
(d) Scan speed
= 0.1mm/s,
P = 2.3 W
46.8 μm 13.01° 13.43°
Table 1 Specification of CO2 laser source
Table 2 Beam divergence angle of optical fiber with different radius of curvature