{"id":860,"date":"2010-11-07T04:37:04","date_gmt":"2010-11-07T04:37:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/?p=860"},"modified":"2010-11-08T21:47:10","modified_gmt":"2010-11-08T21:47:10","slug":"fiber-optic-termination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/07\/fiber-optic-termination\/","title":{"rendered":"Fiber optic termination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nktphotonics.com\/side5334.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Hollow_core_large.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"Hollow core fiber optic\" width=\"520\" height=\"280\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-862\" srcset=\"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Hollow_core_large.png 520w, http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Hollow_core_large-300x161.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fiber optics must be terminated properly in order to permit high transmission. If you&#8217;re making your own, get a proper fiber cleaver and a set of polishing sheets. Here are a few good references: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thorlabs.de\/Thorcat\/1100\/1166-D02.pdf\">ThorLabs<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lanshack.com\/fiber-optic-tutorial-termination.aspx\">LANshack<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.datacottage.com\/nch\/fibertermination.htm\">Datacottage<\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lanshack.com\/fiber-optic-tutorial-termination.aspx\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/term_loss.gif\" alt=\"\" title=\"Types of termination loss\" width=\"177\" height=\"554\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-863\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On the subject of fiber optics, I had a conversation with someone at our <a href=\"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/27\/single-cell-electroporation-workshop\/\">recent single cell electroporation workshop<\/a> about running pulses from a Ti:Sapph laser through a fiber. It is possible to do so, without massive pulse dispersion, using a hollow core photonic band-gap fiber (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.opticsinfobase.org\/abstract.cfm?URI=oe-12-25-6122\">ref<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.opticsinfobase.org\/ol\/abstract.cfm?uri=ol-29-11-1285\">ref<\/a>). It can also be done with a single mode fiber, but requires more kit (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.opticsinfobase.org\/abstract.cfm?id=65126\">ref<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.opticsinfobase.org\/ol\/abstract.cfm?uri=ol-29-11-1285\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/pulsewidth.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"Fig 3 from Gobel et al 2004. Distortion-free high-energy pulse transmission through the hollow-core fiber. Left, pulse width (top) and spectrum width (bottom) at an 812-nm center wavelength as a function of transmitted average power. The dashed lines indicate the width of the input pulse. Right, interferometric autocorrelation (top; black curve) and spectrum (bottom) for 350-mW output power. Traces are compared with the 170-fs input pulse (gray autocorrelation at the top and dashed spectrum at the bottom). No prechirp was used.\" width=\"407\" height=\"335\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-867\" srcset=\"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/pulsewidth.png 407w, http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/pulsewidth-300x246.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 407px) 100vw, 407px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I recently had the pleasure of visiting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stuberlab.org\/The_Stuber_Lab\/Home.html\">Garret Stuber&#8217;s new lab<\/a> at UNC-Chapel Hill. He has an exciting program going with optogenetics and I was impressed with the high quality fiber optic work in his lab. They&#8217;re really doing everything right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nktphotonics.com\/side5334.html\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fiber optics must be terminated properly in order to permit high transmission. If you&#8217;re making your own, get a proper fiber cleaver and a set of polishing sheets. Here are&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/07\/fiber-optic-termination\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[32,15,20],"class_list":["post-860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tips","tag-laser","tag-optics","tag-references"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=860"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":886,"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860\/revisions\/886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}