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Recent advances in soft optical glass fiber and fiber lasers
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In this article, the basic requirements for the rare-earth (RE) ions and host matrix material for obtaining efficient NIR-MIR laser output, a review of the background of processing fundamentals on the fabrication and characterization for newly developed soft optical glass fibers, an outline of the key issues of platinum removal and the dehydration technique, effective doping of RE, and low splicing loss together with the recent theoretical and experimental results.About:
This article is published in Progress in Materials Science.The article was published on 2019-04-01. It has received 163 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Optical fiber & Fiber laser.read more
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Supercontinuum generation, photonic crystal fiber
TL;DR: In this article, a review of numerical and experimental studies of supercontinuum generation in photonic crystal fiber is presented over the full range of experimentally reported parameters, from the femtosecond to the continuous-wave regime.
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Thermally drawn advanced functional fibers: New frontier of flexible electronics
Wei Yan,Chaoqun Dong,Yuanzhuo Xiang,Shan Jiang,Andreas Leber,Gabriel Loke,Wenxin Xu,Chong Hou,Shifeng Zhou,Min Chen,Run Hu,Perry Ping Shum,Lei Wei,Xiaoting Jia,Fabien Sorin,Xiaoming Tao,Guangming Tao +16 more
TL;DR: This work critically review the development of thermally drawn fiber electronics and highlight their unique opportunities in communications, sensing, energy, artificial muscles, 3-D printing, healthcare, neuroscience as well as in-fiber materials fundamental research.
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Fiber-based sources of coherent MIR radiation: key advances and future prospects (invited).
TL;DR: Many of the key advances in the innovation and development of such sources over the past few decades are described and many of the underlying science and technology issues that have resulted in specific recent source achievements are discussed, especially in light of new applications enabled by these new source capabilities.
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Luminescent ion-doped transparent glass ceramics for mid-infrared light sources [invited].
TL;DR: Past achievements in glass ceramics, followed by discussions of currently preferred methods of fabrication, characterization, and optimization of suitably doped oxyfluoride, tellurite, and chalcogenide TGCs and of the projections of anticipated future developments in this field at both the materials and device levels are reviewed.
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The role of CuCl2 in tuning the physical, structural and optical properties of some Al2O3–B2O3 glasses
TL;DR: In this paper, the effects of copper cations on some properties of a glass system, new glass formulation [75% B2O3 - 5% Al2 O3 - (20 - x) % Na2O - (x) % CuCl2], where x = 0.0, 1.0 and 4.5 % was obtained via melt quenching method.
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Supercontinuum generation in photonic crystal fiber
TL;DR: In this paper, a review of numerical and experimental studies of supercontinuum generation in photonic crystal fiber is presented over the full range of experimentally reported parameters, from the femtosecond to the continuous-wave regime.
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All-silica single-mode optical fiber with photonic crystal cladding
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Tellurite glass: a new candidate for fiber devices
TL;DR: In this paper, the physical properties of R2O-ZnO-TeO2 glasses have been studied for their feasibility for fiber drawing and rare earth doping and a tellurite glass fiber with less than 1 dB/m loss has been made by the rod-in-tube method.