Side-polished evanescently coupled optical fiber overlay devices : a review

Johnstone, W.; Bishnu, P. Pal., ed. (2006) Side-polished evanescently coupled optical fiber overlay devices : a review. In: Guided wave optical components and devices. Academic Press, pp. 225-232. ISBN 9780120884810

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Abstract

Access to the evanescent field of an optical fiber can yield a number of useful optical functions involving coupling of the field to structures formed directly on the fiber. In such devices the fiber remains continuous obviating the need for expensive fiber-to-device interfacing with its requirements for high precision alignment. Continuous fiber devices offer advantages of intrinsically low insertion loss, low back reflections, and excellent mechanical stability relative to their micro-optic or integrated optic counterparts where the fiber needs to be broken for device insertion.

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