Fabrication of Multicore Tellurite Glass Optical Fibres

Author

Lousteau, Joris ; Bookey, Henry ; Jiang, Xin ; Hill, Clare ; Kar, Ajoy ; Jha, Animesh

Author_Institution

Univ. of Leeds, Leeds

Volume

2

fYear

2007

fDate

1-5 July 2007

Firstpage

305

Lastpage

308

Abstract

Two tellurite glass compositions in the TeO₂-ZnO-NaO system were synthesised and their suitability as a fibre core/clad material pair was investigated through the analysis of their thermal and rheological properties and their refractive indices. The fibre preform was manufactured by extrusion technique which allowed us to produce a triple core optical fibre structure, having a controlled inter core distance and circular core profiles. Optical assessment of the fibre around standard telecom wavelength showed that the 3 cores possess similar transmission properties with an attenuation of 6.8 dB/m.

Keywords

extrusion; glass fibres; optical fibre cladding; optical fibre fabrication; optical fibre testing; optical glass; preforms; refractive index; tellurium compounds; zinc compounds; TeO₂-ZnO-NaO; circular core profiles; core-clad material pair; extrusion technique; fibre preform; multicore optical fibres; optical fibre fabrication; refractive indices; rheological properties; tellurite glass fibres; thermal properties; transmission properties; triple core optical fibre; Composite materials; Control system synthesis; Glass; Multicore processing; Optical attenuators; Optical device fabrication; Optical fibers; Optical materials; Optical refraction; Rheology;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Transparent Optical Networks, 2007. ICTON '07. 9th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Rome

Print_ISBN

1-4244-1249-8

Electronic_ISBN

1-4244-1249-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICTON.2007.4296211

Filename

4296211