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OPTICA
卷 4, 期 1, 页码 157-162出版社
OPTICAL SOC AMER
DOI: 10.1364/OPTICA.4.000157
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- Army Research Office (ARO) [528418]
- National Science Foundation (NSF) [PHY-1430094]
- Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) [HR0011411122]
- Office of Naval Research (ONR)
- Division Of Physics
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien [1307416] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
Optical nanofibers (ONFs) of sub-wavelength dimensions confine light in modes with a strong evanescent field that can trap, probe, and manipulate nearby quantum systems. To measure the evanescent field and propagating modes and to optimize ONF performance, a surface probe is desirable during fabrication. We demonstrate a nondestructive near-field measurement of light propagation in ONFs by sampling the local evanescent field with a microfiber. This approach reveals the behavior of all propagating modes, and because the modal beat lengths in cylindrical waveguides depend strongly on the radius, it simultaneously provides exquisite sensitivity to the ONF radius. We show that our measured spatial frequencies provide a map of the average ONF radius ( over a 600 mu m window) along the 10 mm ONF waist with a 40 pm resolution and a high signal-to-noise ratio. The measurements agree with scanning electron microscopy (SEM) to within SEM instrument resolutions. This fast method is immune to polarization, intrinsic birefringence, mechanical vibrations, and scattered light and provides a set of constraints to protect from systematic errors in the measurements. (C) 2017 Optical Society of America
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