Optical fibre taper-enabled waveguide photoactuators

Jianliang Xiao; Tao Zhou; Ni Yao; Shuqi Ma; Chenxinyu Pan; Pan Wang; Haoran Fu; Haitao Liu; Jing Pan; Longteng Yu; Shipeng Wang; Wenzhen Yang; Limin Tong; Lei Zhang

doi:10.1038/s41467-022-28021-4

Nature Communications (Jan 2022)

Optical fibre taper-enabled waveguide photoactuators

Jianliang Xiao,
Tao Zhou,
Ni Yao,
Shuqi Ma,
Chenxinyu Pan,
Pan Wang,
Haoran Fu,
Haitao Liu,
Jing Pan,
Longteng Yu,
Shipeng Wang,
Wenzhen Yang,
Limin Tong,
Lei Zhang

Affiliations

Jianliang Xiao: Research Center for Intelligent Sensing, Zhejiang Lab
Tao Zhou: Institute of Flexible Electronics Technology of THU
Ni Yao: Research Center for Intelligent Sensing, Zhejiang Lab
Shuqi Ma: Research Center for Intelligent Sensing, Zhejiang Lab
Chenxinyu Pan: State Key Lab of Modern Optical Instrumentation, College of Optical Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University
Pan Wang: State Key Lab of Modern Optical Instrumentation, College of Optical Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University
Haoran Fu: Institute of Flexible Electronics Technology of THU
Haitao Liu: Research Center for Intelligent Sensing, Zhejiang Lab
Jing Pan: State Key Lab of Modern Optical Instrumentation, College of Optical Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University
Longteng Yu: Research Center for Intelligent Sensing, Zhejiang Lab
Shipeng Wang: Research Center for Intelligent Sensing, Zhejiang Lab
Wenzhen Yang: Research Center for Intelligent Sensing, Zhejiang Lab
Limin Tong: State Key Lab of Modern Optical Instrumentation, College of Optical Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University
Lei Zhang: Research Center for Intelligent Sensing, Zhejiang Lab

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-28021-4
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Despite promising devices, waveguide photoactuators actuating performances have been fundamentally restricted by the nature of standard optical fibres. To overcome these challenges, authors propose an optical fibre taper-enabled waveguide photoactuator and show enhanced performance.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
Website: https://www.nature.com/ncomms/

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