Tellurite photonic crystal fiber made by a stack-and-draw technique

Development of thermally stable tellurite glasses designed for fabrication of microstructured optical fibers

“…The proposed glasses are better than those previously reported by E.F. Chillcce et al [19] due to lack of crystallization. We have shown that the selected group of three glasses with the compositions [mol%]: 65TeO 2 , 28WO 3 , 5Na 2 O, 2Nb 2 O 5 (TWPN/I/6); 60TeO 2 , 25WO 3 , 8PbO, 5Na 2 O, 2Nb 2 O 5 (TWPN/II/3); 60TeO 2 , 30WO 3 , 3PbO, 5Na 2 O, 2Nb 2 O 5 (TWPN/II/4) are crystallization-free (have no exothermal peaks on DSC curves).…”

“…There are a few methods reported for the development of fiber preform components (tubes and rods) with tellurite glasses: extrusion; glass casting; centrifugation [16][17][18][19]. We have developed tubes and rods using the casting method followed by mechanical grinding and polishing.…”

“…High coupling losses are also observed in the case of free space coupling. Tellurite glasses have been successfully used for the development of PCFs [4,[16][17][18][19] but only Chillcce et al have presented a composition of tellurite glass used for the fiber development [19].…”

Supercontinuum generation up to 2.5 μm in photonic crystal fiber made of lead-bismuth-galate glass

“…We have also fabricated a tellurite glass labeled TWNB-01 of the composition [mol.%]: 71 TeO 2 , 22.5 WO 3 , 1.5 Nb 2 O 5 , 5 Na 2 O. The composition of TWNB-01 is similar to the one proposed by E.F. Chillcce et al [18] and successfully used for a PCF development [18,19].…”

Faster and improved microchip electrophoresis using a capillary bundle

“…PCF is originally made of silica glass with a microstructure of hollow channels that run along the cladding, confining light to the core [9]. Here, we innovatively used PCF as a bundle of microchannels for CE separation.…”