Fabrication of miniature fiber-optic temperature sensors

Publication Date
2010-07-27Filing Date
2007-08-08Inventor
Wang, Anbo
Zhu, Yizheng
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A method of coupling a silica fiber and a sapphire fiber includes providing a silica fiber having a doped core and a cladding layer, with the doped core having a prescribed diameter, providing a sapphire fiber having a diameter less than the doped core, placing an end of the sapphire fiber in close proximity to an end of the silica fiber, applying a heat source to the end of silica fiber and introducing the end of sapphire fiber into the heated doped core of the silica fiber to produce a coupling between the silica and sapphire fibers.
Assignee
Virginia Tech Intellectual Properties, Inc.
Patent Number
7762720
Application Number
11835835
Primary/U.S. Class
374/131
Other/U.S. Class
374/121
374/161
CPC Class
G01J5/08
G01J5/0821
G01K11/3206
G02B6/2551
Patent Type
utility
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