@inproceedings{4c9e30e669b344fd887ecc8ff4d3d115,
title = "Fabrication of 50-μm-bore hollow fiber for infrared transmission",
abstract = "Extremely flexible hollow fibers with 50 μm-bore size were developed for infrared laser light delivery. The hollow fiber was inner coated with silver and a dielectric layer to enhance the reflection rate at an objective wavelength band. The silver layer was inner-plated by using the conventional silver mirror-plating technique. Concerning the fabrication parameters used up to now for 320-μm bore-sized fibers, the target flowing rate for plating solutions was 10 ml/min. Parallelly arranged bundles of silica capillary were used to increase the cross-sectional area. To achieve the target, bundles with 4800 pieces were used for the capillary with a length of 20 cm and inner diameters of 50 μm. The loss for the 50 μm bore size, 10 cm length silver hollow fiber was 6 dB at the wavelength of 1 μm. Thin dielectric layer was formed by using liquid-phase coating method for low-loss transmission of Nd:YAG and Er:YAG laser light.",
keywords = "Coating, Dielectric layer, Hollow fiber, Infrared, Laser",
author = "Katsumasa Iwai and Kouki Takahashi and Hiroyuki Takaku and Mitsunobu Miyagi and Shi, {Yi Wei} and Yuji Matsuura",
note = "Copyright: Copyright 2014 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.; Optical Fibers and Sensors for Medical Diagnostics and Treatment Applications XIV ; Conference date: 01-02-2014 Through 02-02-2014",
year = "2014",
doi = "10.1117/12.2036666",
language = "English",
isbn = "9780819498519",
series = "Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE",
publisher = "SPIE",
booktitle = "Optical Fibers and Sensors for Medical Diagnostics and Treatment Applications XIV",
}