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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2013 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
