Low-dispersion optical fiber highly transparent in the UV spectral range

Autor: Ermolaeva, Galina M., Eron’yan, Mikhail A., Dukel’skii, Konstantin V., Komarov, Alexander V., Kondratev, Yury N., Serkov, Mikhail M., Tolstoy, Mikhail N., Shilov, Valery B., Shevandin, Victor S., Powell, Howard T., Thompson, Calvin E.
Zdroj: Optical Engineering; December 2004, Vol. 43 Issue: 12 p2896-2903, 8p
Abstrakt: The National Ignition Facility performs fusion experiments using ultraviolet (351 nm) light. High-bandwidth, low-attenuation optical fibers are required to transport subnanosecond, UV laser diagnostic signals from the target chamber area to recording instruments located in adjacent rooms, with some fiber runs approximately 65 m in length. Special optical fibers are developed and fabricated to perform this task, since no existing commercially available fibers possess all of the required characteristics. These large-core (435 m) fibers have optical dispersions less than 0.9 psec/m and attenuations less than 150 dB/km at 351 nm. © 2004 Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers.
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