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Fabrication and Characteristics of Single-Mode Cr-Doped Fibers with Powder-in-Tube Technique

The success in fabrication of Cr-doped fibers (CDFs) with fluorescence of Cr3+ by powder-in-tube (PIT) method equipped with drawing-tower process is demonstrated.
However, the fabrication by using powder-in-tube (PIT) with redrawing technique provides a better solution to improve the concentration of Cr-ion to enhance the fluorescence of CDFs. The Cr-doped powder was composed of CaO-Al2O3-BaCO3-MgO-Cr2O3 as the material of core. The CDFs had a 7 £gm core and a 125 £gm cladding. The transmission loss was 0.27 dB/cm at 1550 nm and a core non-circularity of less than 3% for the CDFs are achieved. The fluorescence intensity of Cr3+ between 800~1200 nm was 6 nW/nm.
The optical fiber fabrication processes, whether the preform is made by MCVD(Modified Chemical Vapor Deposition), RIT(Rod-in-Tube) or PIT, the inter-diffusion between core and cladding materials is an inevitable issue at such high fiber drawing temperature. Since SiO2 is amajor component in the cladding, SiO2 will certainly diffuse into the core region and become one of the new constituents in the core. The Cr-doped powder was composed of SiO2- Al2O3-MgO-K2O-TiO2-Cr2O3 as the material of core. The CDFs had a 10 £gm core and a 125 £gm cladding. The fluorescence intensity of Cr4+ between 900~1300 nm was 200 pW/nm.
The CDFs were successfully fabricated by using podwer-in-tube with redrawing technique. The demonstration of CDFs makes it possible as a new generation broadband fiber amplifier and a broadband source for high resolution OCT.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0816112-132755
Date16 August 2012
CreatorsLiu, Chun-nien
ContributorsWood-Hi Cheng, Chin-Ping Yu, Yi-Chung Huang, Ray-Hua Horng, Sheng-Lung Huang
PublisherNSYSU
Source SetsNSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive
LanguageCholon
Detected LanguageEnglish
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Sourcehttp://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0816112-132755
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