Fabrication of small-scale coils and bands as photomasks on optical fibers for generation of in-fiber gratings, electromagnets as micro-NMR coils, microtransformers, and intravascular stents
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    发明申请
    Fabrication of small-scale coils and bands as photomasks on optical fibers for generation of in-fiber gratings, electromagnets as micro-NMR coils, microtransformers, and intravascular stents 审中-公开
    在光纤上制造小尺寸线圈和带作为光纤的光纤,用于生成光纤光栅,作为微核磁共振线圈的电磁体,微型变压器和血管内支架

    公开(公告)号:WO9744692A3

    公开(公告)日:1998-06-18

    申请号:PCT/US9708144

    申请日:1997-05-09

    Abstract: Techniques for fabrication of small-scale metallic structures such as microinductors, microtransformers and stents are described. A chemically active agent such as a catalyst is applied from an applicator in a pattern to an exterior surface of an article, metal is deposited according to the pattern and optionally, removed from the substrate. Where the substrate is cylindrical, the pattern can serve as a stent. Alternatively, a pattern of a self-assembled monolayer can be printed on a surface, which pattern can dictate metal plating or etching resulting in a patterned metal structure that can be cylindrical. In another embodiment, a structure is patterned on a surface that serves as a phase-modulating pattern or amplitude-modulating pattern. The article subsequently is exposed to radiation that can induce a change in refractive index within the article, and the phase-modulating or amplitude-modulating pattern results in different indices of refraction being created in different portions of the article. By this technique, a grating can be written into a core of an optical fiber.

    Abstract translation: 描述了微型电感器,微型变压器和支架等小型金属结构的制造技术。 将化学活性剂如催化剂从涂布器以图案施加到制品的外表面,根据图案沉积金属,并任选地从基材上除去金属。 在基底为圆柱形的情况下,图案可用作支架。 或者,自组装单层的图案可以印刷在表面上,该图案可以规定金属电镀或蚀刻,从而形成可以是圆柱形的图案化金属结构。 在另一个实施例中,在用作相位调制图案或幅度调制图案的表面上图案化结构。 该物品随后暴露于可引起制品内的折射率变化的辐射,并且相位调制或幅度调制图案导致在制品的不同部分产生不同的折射率。 通过这种技术,可以将光栅写入光纤的核心。

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