FTIR multispectral imaging of P/Al-doped silica glass preforms prepared by MCVD in combination with the high temperature evaporation of AlCl3

Autor: Katrin Wondraczek, Antje Kriltz, Claudia Aichele, Florian Lindner, Hartmut Bartelt, Andy Scheffel
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: Optical Materials Express. 12:184
ISSN: 2159-3930
Popis: For high power fiber lasers, codoping with Al, P or both is necessary to prevent rare earth (RE) clustering in the silica network of the laser active core material. Here, we present a complementary infrared (IR) based multispectral method combined with elemental analysis data on core/cladding to describe the structure of the doped core material as fabricated by chemical vapor deposition with gas phase doping of Al and P. The resulting 2D image and its corresponding 3D visualization of the data enable an alternative and convenient way to characterize the main species of the dopants aside from NMR measurements.
Databáze: OpenAIRE