Chinese Optics Letters, Volume. 10, Issue s2, S21303(2012)
Single mode planar waveguide of core-only GASIR fiber buried in chalcogenide glasses substrates
Modal filtering in nulling interferometer is based on the capability of single-mode waveguides to transmit only one complex amplitude function to eliminate virtually any perturbation of the interfering wavefronts. In this letter, we focus on realizing single-mode waveguide of chalcogenide glasses in the thermal infrared range 6–20 \mu m by burying a GASIR (Ge-As-Se) fiber core in the substrates of As-Se-S glasses system. To match the single-mode operation, GASIR fiber core of about 15-μm diameter is drawn, the fiber core is buried into As-Se-S substrates by heating two kinds of glasses to a suitable temperature. The propagation mode is tested by guiding a CO2 laser emitting at 9.3 μm into the waveguide. Single-mode out coming signal is obtained by an infrared camera.
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Shaoqian Zhang, Xianghua Zhang, Marc Barillot, Catherine Boussard, "Single mode planar waveguide of core-only GASIR fiber buried in chalcogenide glasses substrates," Chin. Opt. Lett. 10, S21303 (2012)
Category: Integrated Optics
Received: Jul. 10, 2012
Accepted: Oct. 10, 2012
Published Online: Dec. 26, 2012
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