Title :
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
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;
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
DOI :
10.1109/ICTON.2007.4296211
