The Development of Advanced Optical Fibers for Long-Wave Infrared Transmission

Fibers

Pierre Lucas³  Catherine Boussard-Pledel¹  Allison Wilhelm³  Sylvain Danto⁴  Xiang-Hua Zhang¹  Patrick Houizot²  Sebastien Maurugeon¹  Clément Conseil¹ 

[1] Laboratoire des Verres et Ceramiques, UMR-CNRS 6226, Universite de Rennes 1, 35042 Rennes, France; E-Mails:;LARMAUR ERL CNRS 6274, Université de Rennes 1, Campus de Beaulieu, 35042 Rennes Cedex, France; E-Mail:;Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85712, USA; E-Mail:;ICMCB/CNRS University of Bordeaux, 87 Avenue du Dr. Schweitzer, 33608 Pessac, France; E-Mail:

关键词: infrared fibers;    chalcogenide glass;    telluride glass;    long-wave infrared;   

DOI  :  10.3390/fib1030110

来源: mdpi

【 摘 要 】

Long-wave infrared fibers are used in an increasing number of applications ranging from thermal imaging to bio-sensing. However, the design of optical fiber with low-loss in the far-infrared requires a combination of properties including good rheological characteristics for fiber drawing and low phonon energy for wide optical transparency, which are often mutually exclusive and can only be achieved through fine materials engineering. This paper presents strategies for obtaining low loss fibers in the far-infrared based on telluride glasses. The composition of the glasses is systematically investigated to obtained fibers with minimal losses. The fiber attenuation is shown to depend strongly on extrinsic impurity but also on intrinsic charge carrier populations in these low band-gap amorphous semiconductor materials.

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