Title :
Fabrication and characteristics of Cr-doped fibers employing powder-in-tube technique
Author :
Huang, Yi-Chung ; Wang, Jau-Sheng ; Chu, Kuei-Ming ; Lin, Ting-Chien ; Wang, Wei-Lun ; Chou, Ta-Lung ; Yeh, Szu-Ming ; Huang, Sheng-Lung ; Cheng, Wood-Hi
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Photonics, Nat. Sun Yat-sen Univ., Kaohsiung, Taiwan
Abstract :
The fabrication of Cr-doped fibers (CDFs) using fiber drawing-tower combined with non-silica powder-in-tube (PIT) technique to achieve the active application of chromium ions in fiber is demonstrated for the first time. The fluorescence enhancement, transmission loss, and few-mode operation are discussed in the paper. The success in fabrication of CDFs with PIT method may open the possibility for utilizing CDFs as broadband fiber light source.
Keywords :
chromium; fluorescence; light transmission; optical fibre fabrication; optical fibre losses; Cr-doped fiber fabrication; broadband fiber light source; few-mode operation; fiber drawing-tower technique; fluorescence enhancement; nonsilica powder-in-tube technique; transmission loss; Broadband amplifiers; Fabrication; Fluorescence; Optical fiber amplifiers; Propagation losses;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition (OFC/NFOEC), 2011 and the National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference
Conference_Location :
Los Angeles, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-0213-6
