• Chinese Optics Letters
  • Vol. 10, Issue s2, S21303 (2012)
Shaoqian Zhang, Xianghua Zhang, Marc Barillot, and Catherine Boussard
DOI: 10.3788/col201210.s21303 Cite this Article Set citation alerts
Shaoqian Zhang, Xianghua Zhang, Marc Barillot, Catherine Boussard, "Single mode planar waveguide of core-only GASIR fiber buried in chalcogenide glasses substrates," Chin. Opt. Lett. 10, S21303 (2012) Copy Citation Text show less

Abstract

Modal filtering in nulling interferometer is based on the capability of single-mode waveguides to transmit only one complex amplitude function to eliminate virtually any perturbation of the interfering wavefronts. In this letter, we focus on realizing single-mode waveguide of chalcogenide glasses in the thermal infrared range 6–20 \mu m by burying a GASIR (Ge-As-Se) fiber core in the substrates of As-Se-S glasses system. To match the single-mode operation, GASIR fiber core of about 15-μm diameter is drawn, the fiber core is buried into As-Se-S substrates by heating two kinds of glasses to a suitable temperature. The propagation mode is tested by guiding a CO2 laser emitting at 9.3 μm into the waveguide. Single-mode out coming signal is obtained by an infrared camera.
Shaoqian Zhang, Xianghua Zhang, Marc Barillot, Catherine Boussard, "Single mode planar waveguide of core-only GASIR fiber buried in chalcogenide glasses substrates," Chin. Opt. Lett. 10, S21303 (2012)
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