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Highly Birefringent Biconical Fiber Tapers Fabricated by Hydrofluoric Acid Microdroplet Flow Etching

Jared Mikkelsen and Joyce K. S. Poon

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Abstract

Biconical fiber tapers with asymmetric, micron-wide cross-sections were etched from standard single-mode fibers by hydrofluoric acid microdroplets. The tapers showed record-high group birefringences of BG~0.017 and insertion losses < 0.7 dB.

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