title: Simple optical profiling of complex guiding structures.
abstract: Working with complex guiding structures such as holey fibers requires coupling light into the input face of the structure. We use a simple in vivo technique to determine the scale, morphology, and orientation of the input cleave of the fiber without resorting to separate and more complex methods like optical imaging or scanning electron microscopy. Further, after obtaining the transverse scan of the fiber tip one can precisely position the focal spot anywhere relative to the fiber structure.
authors.affiliation: Materials Science and Technology Division MST-10, MS K764, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545, USA. efimov@lanl.gov
authors.forename: Anatoly
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Efimov
authors.forename: Antoinette J
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Taylor
authors.forename: Fiorenzo G
authors.initials: FG
authors.lastname: Omenetto
authors.forename: Jonathan C
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Knight
authors.forename: William J
authors.initials: WJ
authors.lastname: Wadsworth
authors.forename: Philip St J
authors.initials: PS
authors.lastname: Russell