Fiber optic taper is an important component in the CCD coupling, television imaging and
night vision device. Increasing need in high-resolution picture transmission devices requires …

This paper presents numerical investigation of stress distribution within fiber optic taper
during its drawing process. A thermoviscoelastic model is proposed to describe the glass …

Thermal fiber drawing is an efficient technique for producing optical fiber tapers whose
operation regime gradually varies between multi-mode and single-mode. Here we present a …

We present a generalized heat-brush tapering approach in which the ratio of the feed and
draw velocities changes within each tapering sweep. This approach allows for controlled …

This paper presents the implementation of an automated fiber optic taper rig capable of
manufacturing fiber optic tapers with diameters in the micron and sub-micron range. The …

An optical fiber taper is fabricated by heating and stretching a fiber. The resulting taper
shape is important as it strongly affects optical performance. In this paper, the tapering …

In the production of tapered optical fibers, it is important to control the fiber shape according
to application-dependent requirements and to ensure adiabatic tapers. Especially in the …

Abstract Tapered Optical Fiber Array (TOFA) is a type of fiber optic imaging element
consisting of several million tapered optical fibers. TOFA is widely used for coupling with …

For a special solid coupled optical taper, a differential equation of its shape curve is
deduced using the curvature-shape matching relationship, and the closed-form solution of …

The emergence angle of specialty solid coupled (SSC) optical taper is numerically studied
by using ray-tracing method, which depends on the shape curve function. The relationships …