Nonsilica glasses for holey fibers

Author

Feng, Xian ; Mairaj, Arshad K. ; Hewak, Daniel W. ; Monro, Tanya M.

Author_Institution

Optoelectron. Res. Centre, Univ. of Southampton, UK

Volume

23

Issue

6

fYear

2005

fDate

6/1/2005 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

2046

Lastpage

2054

Abstract

The authors of this paper investigated the thermal properties and optical properties of typical nonsilica glasses, including viscosity, surface tension, thermal conductivity, transmission, linear and nonlinear refractive index, and fiber attenuation in order to judge the feasibility of using nonsilica glasses as the background material of holey fibers (HFs). Novel techniques were presented to fabricate the nonsilica glass microstructured fiber preforms. Examples of fabricated nonsilica glass HFs with various promising optical applications were finally exhibited.

Keywords

glass fibres; light scattering; nonlinear optics; optical fibre fabrication; optical glass; preforms; refractive index; surface tension; thermal conductivity; viscosity; fiber attenuation; holey fibers; linear refractive index; microstructured fiber performs; nonlinear refractive index; nonsilica glasses; optical properties; surface tension; thermal conductivity; thermal properties; transmission; viscosity; Fiber nonlinear optics; Glass; Holey fibers; Optical attenuators; Optical refraction; Optical variables control; Refractive index; Surface tension; Thermal conductivity; Viscosity; Holey fibers (HFs); optical fiber fabrication; photonic-crystal fibers (PCFs);

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Lightwave Technology, Journal of

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0733-8724

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/JLT.2005.849945

Filename

1440511