Abbreviated Journal Title
Opt. Mater. Express
Keywords
EXTRUDED TELLURITE GLASS; SUPERCONTINUUM GENERATION; OPTICAL-FIBERS; CHALCOGENIDE NANOTAPERS; EXTRUSION; PREFORMS; WAVE; Materials Science, Multidisciplinary; Optics
Abstract
A critical challenge in the fabrication of chalcogenide-glass infrared optical fibers is the need for first producing large volumes of high-purity glass-a formidable task, particularly in the case of multicomponent glasses. We describe here a procedure based on multimaterial coextrusion of a hybrid glass-polymer preform from which extended lengths of robust infrared fibers are readily drawn. Only similar to 2 g of glass is required to produce 46 m of step-index fiber with core diameters in the range 10-18 mu m. This process enables rapid prototyping of a variety of glasses for applications in the delivery of quantum cascade laser light, spectroscopy, sensing, and astronomy.
Journal Title
Optical Materials Express
Volume
4
Issue/Number
10
Publication Date
1-1-2014
Document Type
Article
Language
English
First Page
2143
Last Page
2149
WOS Identifier
ISSN
2159-3930
Recommended Citation
Tao, Guangming; Shabahang, Soroush; Dai, Shixun; and Abouraddy, Ayman F., "Multimaterial disc-to-fiber approach to efficiently produce robust infrared fibers" (2014). Faculty Bibliography 2010s. 6162.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/facultybib2010/6162
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