• DocumentCode
    689548
  • Title

    Mid-infrared fluorotellurite glasses and fibers

  • Author

    Huan Zhan ; Aidong Zhang ; Jianli He ; Zhiguang Zhou ; Lu Li ; Aoxiang Lin

  • Author_Institution
    State Key Lab. of Transient Opt. & Photonics, Xi´an Inst. of Opt. & Precision Mech. (XIOPM), Xi´an, China
  • fYear
    2013
  • fDate
    9-14 June 2013
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    We report on the fabrication and characterization of rare earth ions-doped water-free fluorotellurite glasses and fibers. For 2.8 mm glass fiber rods, its background loss was -12 dB/m in the range of 2.5-4.2 urn.
  • Keywords
    erbium; holmium; optical fibre fabrication; optical glass; sodium compounds; tellurium compounds; thulium; zinc compounds; TeO2-ZnF2-NaF-Er2O3; TeO2-ZnF2-NaF-Ho2O3; TeO2-ZnF2-NaF-Tm2O3; background loss; glass fiber rods; mid-infrared fluorotellurite glasses; rare earth ions-doped water-free fluorotellurite glasses; size 2.8 mm; Fabrication; Fiber lasers; Glass; Laser excitation; Laser theory; Optical fiber losses; Propagation losses;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2013 Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Jose, CA
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    6833934