Multifunctional smart optical fibers: Materials, fabrication, and sensing applications

Z Liu, ZF Zhang, HY Tam, X Tao - Photonics, 2019 - mdpi.com
This paper presents a review of the development of optical fibers made of multiple materials,
particularly including silica glass, soft glass, polymers, hydrogels, biomaterials …

Increased mid-infrared supercontinuum bandwidth and average power by tapering large-mode-area chalcogenide photonic crystal fibers

CR Petersen, RD Engelsholm, C Markos, L Brilland… - Optics express, 2017 - opg.optica.org
The trade-off between the spectral bandwidth and average output power from chalcogenide
fiber-based mid-infrared supercontinuum sources is one of the major challenges towards …

Progress in preparation and applications of Te-As-Se chalcogenide glasses and fibers

Z Wu, Y Xu, D Qi, Q Nie, X Zhang - Infrared Physics & Technology, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract Te-As-Se (TAS) chalcogenide (ChG) glasses are suitable candidates for mid-
infrared (MIR) applications. In this review, the formation, preparation of high-purity TAS …

[图书][B] Mid-infrared fluoride and chalcogenide glasses and fibers

P Wang, X Wang, H Guo, P Zhang, S Wang, S Jia… - 2022 - Springer
Glass has been in existence for millennia, mainly for glass vessels, decorative art, jewelery
and of course in windows. The use of silica-based glass fibers as light guides began in the …

High-resolution chalcogenide fiber bundles for longwave infrared imaging

S Qi, B Zhang, C Zhai, Y Li, A Yang, Y Yu, D Tang… - Optics …, 2017 - opg.optica.org
A flexible chalcogenide fiber bundle (FB) with a resolution as high as~ 31 lp/mm has been
fabricated for delivering thermal images of objects at room temperature. The FB is composed …

Flexible Mid-IR fiber bundle for thermal imaging of inaccessible areas

A Ventura, F Ben Slimen, J Lousteau, N White… - Optics …, 2019 - opg.optica.org
We present a flexible coherent Mid-Infrared (Mid-IR) fiber bundle for thermal imaging made
of 1200 Ge_30As_13Se_32Te_25 glass cores embedded in a Fluorinated Ethylene …

High-resolution air-clad imaging fibers

HAC Wood, K Harrington, TA Birks, JC Knight… - Optics Letters, 2018 - opg.optica.org
We present a coherent fiber bundle comprising over 11,000 doped silica cores separated by
an air-filled cladding. The fiber is characterized, and its imaging quality is shown to be a …

Quantitative characterization of endoscopic imaging fibers

HAC Wood, K Harrington, JM Stone, TA Birks… - Optics express, 2017 - opg.optica.org
We describe a technique for the quantitative characterization of endoscopic imaging fibers
using an interference pattern as the standard object to be imaged. The visibility of the pattern …

Fabrication and characterization of large numerical aperture, high-resolution optical fiber bundles based on high-contrast pairs of soft glasses for fluorescence …

B Morova, N Bavili, O Yaman, B Yigit, M Zeybel… - Optics express, 2019 - opg.optica.org
Fabrication and characterization of flexible optical fiber bundles (FBs) with in-house
synthesized high-index and low-index thermally matched glasses are presented. The FBs …

Chalcogenide-glass nested anti-resonant nodeless fibers in mid-infrared region

J Tu, B Zhang, Z Liu, X Zhou, K Long, Z Li… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2018 - opg.optica.org
We propose two types of chalcogenide-glass nested anti-resonant nodeless fibers
(CNANFs) with four anti-resonant elements, in which a smaller tube is nested. One type of …