The invention discloses a
fiber-Raman-enhanced probe based on a tapered
optical fiber and a micro-ball lens and a manufacturing method of the
fiber-Raman-enhanced probe. The
fiber-Raman-enhanced probe comprises the
optical fiber with a tapered end, a
micrometer-scale ball and glue connecting the tip of the tapered
optical fiber and the ball. Single-color
laser enters the optical fiber from one end of the optical fiber in a
coupling manner, reaches the tapered end of the optical fiber, and converges to the surface of a sample through the ball lens at the tip of the tapered optical fiber. The probe can focus detecting light into a thin and long
light beam, the width of the focused
light beam is the size of sub-
wavelength, and the length of the focused
light beam is about three times of the
wavelength. When the probe is used as the Raman probe, the thin and long focused light beam can stimulate more to-be-detected molecules, and the sub-
wavelength width can increase the spatial resolution of detecting. Meanwhile, due to the fact that the tapered optical fiber is coupled into the micro-ball and then focused to the sample, the irradiating area of excitation light is reduced, only a focus point has the enhanced excitation light, and the spatial resolution and
signal-to-
noise ratio of Raman detecting are increased favorably.