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Integrated optic glass microcantilevers with Bragg grating interrogation

Integrated optic glass microcantilevers with Bragg grating interrogation
Integrated optic glass microcantilevers with Bragg grating interrogation
A new method for creating microcantilevers in glass allows integration of optical waveguides and Bragg gratings. Devices are fabricated by high precision sawing, followed by direct UV writing of waveguides with Bragg gratings and then chemical etching to release the freestanding glass structures. Optical measurement of the Bragg gratings together with piezo-actuation allows the mechanical resonances to be probed. By measuring the mechanical damping coefficient of the cantilever as a function of the gas pressure in a vacuum system the transition from the viscous to the molecular flow regime can be observed.
1094-4087
23296-23301
Carpenter, Lewis G.
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Holmes, Christopher
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Carpenter, Lewis G.
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Holmes, Christopher
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Rogers, Helen L.
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Smith, Peter G.
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Gates, James C.
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Carpenter, Lewis G., Holmes, Christopher, Rogers, Helen L., Smith, Peter G. and Gates, James C. (2010) Integrated optic glass microcantilevers with Bragg grating interrogation. Optics Express, 18 (22), 23296-23301. (doi:10.1364/OE.18.023296).

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A new method for creating microcantilevers in glass allows integration of optical waveguides and Bragg gratings. Devices are fabricated by high precision sawing, followed by direct UV writing of waveguides with Bragg gratings and then chemical etching to release the freestanding glass structures. Optical measurement of the Bragg gratings together with piezo-actuation allows the mechanical resonances to be probed. By measuring the mechanical damping coefficient of the cantilever as a function of the gas pressure in a vacuum system the transition from the viscous to the molecular flow regime can be observed.

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Published date: 2010
Organisations: Optoelectronics Research Centre, Photonic Systems Circuits & Sensors, Southampton Marine & Maritime Institute, Registrar & University Executive

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Local EPrints ID: 177009
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/177009
ISSN: 1094-4087
PURE UUID: 0ac868ab-6c96-4e02-9d8f-30822027e036
ORCID for Christopher Holmes: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0001-9021-3760
ORCID for Peter G. Smith: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0003-0319-718X
ORCID for James C. Gates: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0001-8671-5987

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Date deposited: 14 Mar 2011 13:43
Last modified: 15 Mar 2024 02:49

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Author: Lewis G. Carpenter
Author: Helen L. Rogers
Author: Peter G. Smith ORCID iD
Author: James C. Gates ORCID iD

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