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ArticleSensors (Basel, Switzerland)2019

Laser-Induced Deposition of Carbon Nanotubes in Fiber Optic Tips of MMI Devices.

Natanael Cuando-Espitia, Juan Bernal-Martínez, Miguel Torres-Cisneros, Daniel May-Arrioja

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Article in Sensors (Basel, Switzerland), 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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Natanael Cuando-EspitiaCONACyT, Applied Physics Group, DICIS, University of Guanajuato, Salamanca, Guanajuato 368850, Mexico. natanael.cuando@ugto.mx.
Juan Bernal-MartínezUnidad de Investigación Biomédica y Nanotecnología, Calle Cañada Honda 129, Ojocaliente 1 Aguascalientes, Ags. C.P. 20190, Mexico. drjuanbernal@gmail.com.
Miguel Torres-CisnerosApplied Physics Group, DICIS, University of Guanajuato, Salamanca, Guanajuato 368850, Mexico. torres.cisneros@ugto.mx.ORCID 0000-0002-2408-4945
Daniel May-ArriojaCentro de Investigaciones en Óptica, Prol. Constitución 607, Fracc. Reserva Loma Bonita, Aguascalientes 20200, Mexico. darrioja@cio.mx.

Funding

Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología CB2016-286368, CB2016-286629Universidad de Guanajuato 310-2019
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The integration of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) into optical fibers allows the application of their unique properties in robust and versatile devices. Here, we present a laser-induced technique to obtain the deposition of CNTs onto the fiber optics tips of multimode interference (MMI) devices. An MMI device is constructed by splicing a section of no-core fiber (NCF) to a single-mode fiber (SMF). The tip of the MMI device is immersed into a liquid solution of CNTs and laser light is launched into the MMI device. CNTs solutions using water and methanol as solvents were tested. In addition, the use of a polymer dispersant polyvinylpyrrolidone (PVP) in the CNTs solutions was also studied. We found that the laser-induced deposition of CNTs performed in water-based solutions generates non-uniform deposits. On the other hand, the laser-induced deposition performed with methanol solutions generates uniform deposits over the fiber tip when no PVP is used and deposition at the center of the fiber when PVP is present in the CNTs solution. The results show the crucial role of the solvent on the spatial features of the laser-induced deposition process. Finally, we register and study the reflection spectra of the as-fabricated CNTs deposited MMI devices.

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carbon nanotubeslaser-induced depositionmultimode interferenceoptical fibers

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PMID31627363
PMCPMC6832263

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