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21 June 1988 Properties Of Alkali Halide Optical Fibers
James A. Harrington, Jeanne C. Harrington, Christopher C. Gregory, Stuart Harman
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Proceedings Volume 0906, Optical Fibers in Medicine III; (1988) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.945274
Event: 1988 Los Angeles Symposium: O-E/LASE '88, 1988, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Abstract
Polycrystalline alkali halide fibers were fabricated using a hot extrusion technique. Core/clad fibers of KBr/KC1 had losses as low as 0.1 dB/m at 10.6 μm, but the average loss for 800/1000 μm fiber was 0.69 ± .32 dB/m. The salt fibers were coated with teflon to mini-mize surface fracture from microcleavage cracks and to protect the fiber from contamination. The maximum output power we have obtained from the fiber is 67 watts of cw CO2 laser power. This corresponds to a power density of 13.3 kW/cm2. The 1000 μsalt fiber has been bent into a 12 cm diameter circle with a 5% reduction in transmission.
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James A. Harrington, Jeanne C. Harrington, Christopher C. Gregory, and Stuart Harman "Properties Of Alkali Halide Optical Fibers", Proc. SPIE 0906, Optical Fibers in Medicine III, (21 June 1988); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.945274
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KEYWORDS
Optical fibers

Crystals

Coating

Interfaces

Glasses

Medicine

Thallium

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