The Development of Double Clad Fiber and Double Clad Fiber Coupler for Fiber Based Biomedical Imaging Systems

Seon-Young Ryu; Hae-Young Choi; Myeong-Jin Ju; Ji-Hoon Na; Woo-June Choi; Byeong-Ha Lee

Abstract

We report the fabrication of double clad fiber (DCF) and DCF coupler, suitable for fiber based imaging systems requiring the dual-channel transmission. Unlike the conventional DCF which uses silica for both cladding layers, the proposed DCF uses a low-index polymer for its outer-cladding layer coated over the conventional silica inner-cladding layer. The DCF is drawn with a conventional SMF preform but a low-index polymer coating is used for both jacket and outercladding of the fiber. To achieve the cladding mode coupling, a DCF coupler is fabricated by simply twisting two pieces of the proposed DCF after removing the polymer-coating at contacting regions. A cladding mode coupling ratio of 30% was achieved with a contact length of 16 cm. The proposed DCF and DCF coupler were employed in a composite optical coherence tomography (OCT) and fluorescence spectroscopy (FS) system, and both OCT images and FS signal from a plant tissue are measured simultaneously.

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2008 (4)

J. I. Youn, "Evaluation of morphological changes in degenerative cartilage using 3-D optical coherence tomography," J. Opt. Soc. Korea 12, 98-102 (2008)
[Crossref]

C. A. Patil, N. Bosschaart, M. D. Keller, T. G. van Leeuwen, and A. Mahadevan-Jansen, "Combined Raman spectroscopy and optical coherence tomography device for tissue characterization," Opt. Lett. 33, 1135-1137 (2008)
[Crossref]

S. Y. Ryu, H. Y. Choi, J. H. Na, E. S. Choi, and B. H. Lee, "Combined system of optical coherence tomography and fluorescence spectroscopy based on doublecladding fiber," Opt. Lett. 33, 2347-2349 (2008)
[Crossref]

S. Y. Ryu, H. Y. Choi, J. Na, W. J. Choi, and B. H. Lee, "Lensed fiber probes designed as an alternative to bulk probes in optical coherence tomography," Appl. Opt. 47, 1510-1516 (2008)
[Crossref]

2007 (1)

L. Wang, H. Y. Choi, Y. Jung, B. H. Lee, and K. T. Kim, "Optical probe based on double-clad optical fiber for fluorescence spectroscopy," Opt. Exp. 15, 17681-17689 (2007)
[Crossref]

2006 (1)

Z. Yaqoob, J. Wu, E. J. McDowell, X. Heng, and C. Yang, "Methods and application areas of endoscopic optical coherence tomography," J. Biomed. Opt. 11, 063001 (2006)
[Crossref]

2004 (2)

A. R. Tumlinson, L. P. Hariri, U. Utzinger, and J. K. Barton, "Miniature endoscope for simultaneous optical coherence tomography and laser-induced fluorescence measurement," Appl. Opt. 43, 113-121 (2004)
[Crossref]

H. Kim, J. Kim, U. C. Baek, and B. H. Lee, "Tunable photonic crystal fiber coupler based on a side-polishing technique," Opt. Lett. 29, 1194-1196 (2004)
[Crossref]

2003 (1)

U. Utzinger and R. R. Richards-Kortum, "Fiber optic probes for biomedical optical spectroscopy," J. Biomed. Opt. 8, 121-147 (2003)
[Crossref]

2002 (1)

B. H. Lee, J. B. Eom, D. S. Moon, and U. C. Baek, "Photonic crystal fiber coupler," Opt. Lett. 27, 812-814 (2002)
[Crossref]

2000 (2)

C. Buschmann, G. Langsdorf, and H. K. Lichtenthaler, "Imaging of the blue, green, and red fluorescence emission of plants: an overview," Photosynthetica 38, 483-491 (2000)
[Crossref]

N. Ramanujam, "Fluorescence spectroscopy of neoplastic and non-neoplastic tissues," Neoplasia 2, 89-117 (2000)
[Crossref]

1991 (1)

D. Huang, E. A. Swanson, C. P. Lin, J. S. Schuman, W. G. Stinson, W. Chang, M. R. Hee, T. Flotte, K. Gregory, C. A. Puliafito, and J. G. Fujimoto, "Optical coherence tomography," Science 254, 1178-1181 (1991)
[Crossref]

1989 (1)

H. H. Gilgen, R. P. Novak, R. P. Salathe, W. Hodel, and P. Beaud, "Submillimeter optical reflectometry," J. Lightwave Technol. 7, 1225-1233 (1989)
[Crossref]

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