Chinese Journal of Lasers, Volume. 45, Issue 7, 0706001(2018)
Fabrication of Single-Mode As-Se Infrared Glass Fiber and Its Performance
With the development of infrared optical fiber technology, it is urgent to develop an infrared low loss chalcogenide optical fibers with perfect-structure and high nonlinearity. In this paper, the two kinds of glass samples of As40Se58Te2 and As40Se60 are prepared by the traditional vacuum melt-quenching method and dynamic distillation purification process. Then we obtain a fine-structured chalcogenide optical fiber prefabricated rod prepared by two multi-step extrusion method. After that, the preform is drawn into a low loss step type single-mode chalcogenides glasses fiber under the protection of polyether sulfone (PES) polymer. The results show that the distillation process can effectively remove most of the impurities in the chalcogenide glasses. 2% mole percent of Se is replaced by Te, which can effectively achieve a small numerical aperture (NA) and single-mode transmission characteristics. The single-mode chalcogenides fiber loss test is measured by the truncation method with a Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy spectrometer. The minimum loss of this fiber can be reduced to 1.66 dB/m at 6.06 μm and these glasses working band is from 2.5 to 12 μm. The output of a supercontinuum spectrum covering 1.5-13.2 μm (40 dB bandwidth) is obtained with an optical parametric amplifier (OPA) as the pump source. The fiber has good mid-far infrared transmission performance and extremely high optical nonlinearity.
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Zugang Xue, Peng Chen, Youmei Tian, Zhanghao Pan, Zheming Zhao, Xunsi Wang, Peiqing Zhang, Shixun Dai, Qiuhua Nie. Fabrication of Single-Mode As-Se Infrared Glass Fiber and Its Performance[J]. Chinese Journal of Lasers, 2018, 45(7): 0706001
Category: fiber optics and optical communications
Received: Jan. 29, 2018
Accepted: --
Published Online: Sep. 11, 2018
The Author Email: Zhao Zheming (zhaozheming_27@sina.com)