Fluoride glass microstructured optical fiber with large mode area and mid-infrared transmission

Ebendorff‐Heidepriem, Heike; Foo, Tze-Cheung; Moore, R. C.; Zhang, Wenqi; Li, Yahua; Monro, Tanya M.; Hemming, Alexander; Lancaster, David G.

doi:10.1364/ol.33.002861

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“…The ZBLAN glass with the composition 53 ZrF 4 -20 BaF 2 -3 LaF 3 -4 AlF 3 -20 NaF (mol%) was fabricated from high purity (≥ 99.9%) raw materials in a controlled atmosphere glass melting facility using 50 g batch sizes [25]. For inscription of the structures a 5.1 MHz Ti:sapphire chirped pulse oscillator (FEMTOSOURCE XL 500, Femtolasers GmbH) was used.…”

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confidence: 99%

Femtosecond laser induced structural changes in fluorozirconate glass

Gross¹,

Lancaster²,

Ebendorff-Heidepriem³

et al. 2013

Opt. Mater. Express

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Femtosecond laser induced structural changes in fluorozirconate glass

Gross¹,

Lancaster²,

Ebendorff-Heidepriem³

et al. 2013

Opt. Mater. Express

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“…However, all these supercontina mentioned above are temporally incoherent. A method to generate coherent mid-infrared broadband continuum in nonuniform ZBLAN fiber taper was proposed [189]. It is believed that high efficiency and high-power supercontinuum covering a spectral region from 0.2 μm to 4.5 μm or a longer wavelength will emerge in the near future considering recent progress of high-power 1 μm fiber laser and amplifiers and microstructured ZBLAN fibers [190].…”

Section: Supercontinuum Generation Using Zblan Fibersmentioning

confidence: 99%

High-Power ZBLAN Glass Fiber Lasers: Review and Prospect

Zhu

Peyghambarian

2010

Advances in OptoElectronics

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-NaF), considered as the most stable heavy metal fluoride glass and the excellent host for rare-earth ions, has been extensively used for efficient and compact ultraviolet, visible, and infrared fiber lasers due to its low intrinsic loss, wide transparency window, and small phonon energy. In this paper, the historical progress and the properties of fluoride glasses and the fabrication of ZBLAN fibers are briefly described. Advances of infrared, upconversion, and supercontinuum ZBLAN fiber lasers are addressed in detail. Finally, constraints on the power scaling of ZBLAN fiber lasers are analyzed and discussed. ZBLAN fiber lasers are showing promise of generating high-power emissions covering from ultraviolet to mid-infrared considering the recent advances in newly designed optical fibers, beam-shaped high-power pump diodes, beam combining techniques, and heatdissipating technology.

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“…Contrary to other approaches such as stacking [3,4], drilling [5][6][7] and casting [8,9] which have limitations in terms of geometry [10] and surface quality [11][12][13], billet extrusion appears to provide a nearly unlimited range of possibilities in terms of the geometric arrangement of holes that can be achieved within a cross-section [1,2]. To reach its full potential, however, for some preform shapes [1,14] it is necessary to account for distortion and drift of the holes in the preform, i.e., the difference between the pattern of the die exit and that of the final preform, in order to optimize die design to achieve a targeted geometry. The importance of a precise hole pattern for realizing specific optical characteristics has been studied in [15][16][17].…”

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confidence: 99%