Ternary tellurite glasses for the fabrication of nonlinear optical fibres

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Ternary tellurite glasses for the fabrication of nonlinear optical fibres

Sean Manning, Heike Ebendorff-Heidepriem, and Tanya M. Monro »View Author Affiliations

Optical Materials Express, Vol. 2, Issue 2, pp. 140-152 (2012)
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Abstract

We investigated the suitability of three ternary tellurite glass families for use as optical fibre materials. Systematically varied compositions were produced and the scalability of the glass volumes was assessed. Detailed thermal analysis was conducted to provide justification for the observed billet scaling results. Compositional trends in the linear and nonlinear refractive indices were measured and correlated to structural information gained from measured Raman spectra. Physical mechanisms are suggested to explain the observed trends. Finally we explore the suitability of these glasses for optical fibre fabrication.

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(060.2290) Fiber optics and optical communications : Fiber materials
(160.2750) Materials : Glass and other amorphous materials

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Nonlinear Optical Materials

History
Original Manuscript: November 7, 2011
Revised Manuscript: December 22, 2011
Manuscript Accepted: December 22, 2011
Published: January 10, 2012

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Sean Manning, Heike Ebendorff-Heidepriem, and Tanya M. Monro, "Ternary tellurite glasses for the fabrication of nonlinear optical fibres," Opt. Mater. Express 2, 140-152 (2012)
http://www.opticsinfobase.org/ome/abstract.cfm?URI=ome-2-2-140

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X. Feng, A. Mairaj, D. Hewak, and T. Monro, “Nonsilica glasses for holey fibers,” J. Lightwave Technol.23, 2046–2054 (2005). [CrossRef]

J. Mater. Sci.

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J. Non-Cryst. Solids

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J. Phys. Chem. B

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J. Phys. Chem. Solids

A. Mirgorodsky, T. Merle-Mjean, J.-C. Champarnaud, P. Thomas, and B. Frit, “Dynamics and structure of TeO2 polymorphs: model treatment of paratellurite and tellurite; Raman scattering evidence for new γ- and δ-phases,” J. Phys. Chem. Solids61, 501–509 (2000). [CrossRef]

Nippon Seramikkusu Kyokai Gakujutsu Ronbunshi

T. Sekiya, N. Mochida, A. Ohtsuka, and M. Tonokawa, “Normal vibrations of two polymorphic forms of TeO2 crystals and assignment of Raman peaks of pure TeO2 glass,” Nippon Seramikkusu Kyokai Gakujutsu Ronbunshi97, 1435–1440 (1989). [CrossRef]

Opt. Express

Opt. Lett.

V. G. Plotnichenko, V. O. Sokolov, V. V. Koltashev, E. M. Dianov, I. A. Grishin, and M. F. Churbanov, “Raman band intensities of tellurite glasses,” Opt. Lett.30, 1156–1158 (2005). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

Opt. Mater.

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Phys. Rev. B

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A. P. Mirgorodsky, M. Soulis, P. Thomas, T. Merle-Mjean, and M. Smirnov, “Ab initio study of the nonlinear optical susceptibility of TeO2-based glasses,” Phys. Rev. B73, 1–13 (2006). [CrossRef]

Other

A. K. Varshneya, Fundamentals of Inorganic Glasses (Academic Press Inc., 1994).
J. Lousteau, H. Bookey, X. Jiang, C. Hill, A. Kar, and A. Jha, “Fabrication of multicore tellurite glass optical fibres,” in Transparent Optical Networks, 2007. ICTON ’07. 9th International Conference on, vol. 2 (2007), Vol. 2, pp. 305–308.
R. A. H. El-Mallawany, Tellurite Glasses Handbook Physical Properites and Data (CRC Press LLC, 2002).
V. S. GmbH, “Infrared chalcogenide glass IG5” (2009).
Y. Ohishi, G. Qin, M. Liao, X. Yan, and T. Suzuki, “Recent progress in tellurite fibers,” in “Optical Fiber Communication (OFC), collocated National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference, 2010 Conference on (OFC/NFOEC),” (2010), pp. 1–3.
A. Ryasnyanskiy, A. Lin, C. Guintrand, I. Biaggio, and J. Toulouse, “Tunable nonlinear frequency conversion of bismuth-tellurite glass holey fiber,” Optical Fibre Communication Conference, OSA Technical Digest (CD) (Optical Society of America, 2011), pp. 1–3.

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