Title :
Optimization of glass properties for all solid photonic crystal fibers
Author :
Cimek, Jaroslaw ; Stepien, Ryszard ; Stepniewski, Grzegorz ; Pietrzyk, Izabela ; Klimczak, Mariusz ; BuczynÌski, Ryszard
Author_Institution :
Inst. of Electron. Mater. Technol., Warsaw, Poland
Abstract :
We have developed thermally stable borosilicate glass for joint thermal processing with in-house synthesized highly nonlinear lead-bismuth-gallium-silicate glass PBG081. Presented pair of glasses is suitable for fabricating all-solid photonic crystal fibers, with high contrast of refractive index at level of 0.42 at 589.3nm. The difference in thermal expansion coefficients of both glasses is below 3.9·10-6/K, which allows to fabricate stable structures. A series of borosilicate glasses from the SiO2-B2O3-Al2O3-Li2O-Na2O-K2O system was selected and optimized by composition modification to obtain their thermo-mechanical properties similar to that of lead-bismuth-gallium-silicate glass.
Keywords :
aluminium compounds; boron compounds; borosilicate glasses; holey fibres; lithium compounds; photonic crystals; potassium compounds; silicon compounds; sodium compounds; Al2O3; B2O3; K2O; Li2O; Na2O; PBG081; SiO2; all-solid photonic crystal fibers; composition modification; in-house synthesized highly nonlinear lead-bismuth-gallium-silicate glass; joint thermal processing; refractive index; thermal expansion coefficients; thermally stable borosilicate glass; thermomechanical properties; wavelength 589.3 nm; Crystallization; Glass; Photonic crystal fibers; Refractive index; Temperature measurement; Thermal expansion; Viscosity; all-solid photonic crystal fiber; borosilicate glass; composition optimization; joint thermal processing;
Conference_Titel :
Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON), 2014 16th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Graz
DOI :
10.1109/ICTON.2014.6876639
