Title :
All-glass photonic bandgap fibers and fiber-tapers infiltrated with silver fast-ion-conducting glasses
Author :
Konidakis, Ioannis ; Pissadakis, Stavros
Author_Institution :
Inst. of Electron. Struct. & Laser, Found. for Res. & Technol.-Hellas, Heraklion, Greece
Abstract :
In this paper we report on modifying the photonic bandgap (PBG) transmission characteristics of a commercial silica photonic crystal fiber (PCF) infiltrated with fast-ion-conducting (FIC) silver iodide phosphate glasses. The introduction of silver iodide alters the PBG transmission profiles in the examined range between 400 and 1750 nm, with the introduction of additional stop-bands while significantly affecting scattering losses. The effect of phosphate glass cooling protocol following sample fabrication on the guidance properties of the all-glass PBG fibers is considered. Recent findings on the fabrication of all-glass fiber tapers infiltrated with FIC glasses of the same type are also presented.
Keywords :
optical fibres; optical glass; photonic band gap; silver; Ag; PCF; all-glass fiber tapers; all-glass photonic bandgap fibers; fast-ion-conducting glasses; fast-ion-conducting silver iodide phosphate glasses; fiber-tapers; phosphate glass cooling protocol; photonic crystal fiber; scattering losses; wavelength 400 nm to 1750 nm; Cooling; Glass; Optical fiber sensors; Protocols; Silicon compounds; Silver; fast ion conducting; fiber tapers; photonic bandgap fiber; silver iodide clusters; silver phosphate glass; thermal history;
Conference_Titel :
Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON), 2015 17th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Budapest
DOI :
10.1109/ICTON.2015.7193545
