
Shaping Nanowire Tapers… With A CO 2 Laser Powered Micro-Furnace Aim: • To test a CO 2 Laser Powered Micro-Furnace in tapering fibres . Method: • Stretching heated fibres so that they thin down. • Pass light in, detect light out, work out optical loss. • Fibre Optic Cable: “Flexible, optically transparent wire through which light can be transmitted by total internal reflection.” • Taper: “ A section of optical fibre that h ...