Title :
Fabrication and properties of lead-germanate glasses for high nonlinearity fibre applications
Author :
Munasinghe, H. Tilanka ; Winterstein-Beckmann, Anja ; Schiele, Christian ; Wondraczek, Lothar ; Manzani, Danilo ; Shahraam, Afshar V. ; Monro, Tanya M. ; Ebendorff-Heidepriem, Heike
Author_Institution :
Inst. for Photonics & Adv. Sensing, Univ. of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia
Abstract :
We report on the fabrication of novel germanate glasses and fibres. We have characterised the glasses in terms of their thermal properties, Raman spectra and refractive indices (both linear and nonlinear) and present them as viable alternatives to tellurite glasses for soft glass optical fiber applications.
Keywords :
Raman spectra; germanate glasses; germanium compounds; lanthanum compounds; lead compounds; optical fibre fabrication; optical glass; refractive index; sodium compounds; GeO2-PbO-Na2O-La2O3; Raman spectra; high nonlinearity fibre; lead-germanate glasses; refractive indices; thermal properties;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication (ECOC 2013), 39th European Conference and Exhibition on
Conference_Location :
London
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-84919-759-5
DOI :
10.1049/cp.2013.1361
