SPIE - Education Splicing of Specialty Fibers and Glass Processing of Fused Components for Fiber Laser and Medical Probe Applications SC1020

This course provides attendees with the fundamentals of specialty fiber fusion splicing and fiber glass processing technologies with a focus on high power fiber laser and medical fiber probe applications. It provides an introduction on specialty fibers, reviews the fiber processing approach, and compares different techniques, especially on different fiber fusion processes along with different fusion hardware. It describes fiber waveguide and coupling optics associated with these processes and discusses practical fusion splicing methods for specialty fibers in order to achieve optimal optical coupling between dissimilar fibers. In addition, it illustrates fiber glass processing and fabrication techniques for producing fused fiber components, such as adiabatic taper, mode-field adaptor (MFA), fiber combiners and couplers, and other related fused fiber devices. The course also describes several practical application examples on fiber lasers and monolithic fiber-based probes for OCT medical imaging. This course provides attendees with the fundamentals of specialty fiber fusion splicing and fiber glass processing technologies with a focus on high power fiber laser and medical fiber probe applications. It provides an introduction on specialty fibers, reviews the fiber processing approach, and compares different techniques, especially on different fiber fusion processes along with different fusion hardware. It describes fiber waveguide and coupling optics associated with these processes and discusses practical fusion splicing methods for specialty fibers in order to achieve optimal optical coupling between dissimilar fibers. In addition, it illustrates fiber glass processing and fabrication techniques for producing fused fiber components, such as adiabatic taper, mode-field adaptor (MFA), fiber combiners and couplers, and other related fused fiber devices. The course also describes several practical application examples on fiber lasers and monolithic fiber-based probes for OCT medical imaging.