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Effect of Thermal Annealing on Mid-Infrared Transmission in Semiconductor Alloy-Core Glass-Cladded Fibers

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We report a study investigating the effects of thermal annealing on the optical properties of Si-Ge alloy-core silica-cladded fibers. Low temperature fiber draw was performed with a laboratory-made draw tower at 1760 °C that minimizes impurity diffusion from cladding to the core. As a post-drawing process, Si–Ge core fibers were annealed in a box furnace to alter the core structure. Microstructural and optical properties of fibers were investigated, and transmission losses were measured as 28 dB/cm at 6.1 µm. Numerical studies were performed to analyze the experimental results and to find the optimum structure for low loss semiconductor-core glass-cladded fibers.

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Acknowledgements

This project is supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF, Grant number CMMI-1301108, 2013). We would like to thank Y. Gautam for discussion on simulations.

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  1. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Boston University, Boston, MA, 02215, USA

    Mustafa Ordu & Soumendra N. Basu

  2. UNAM-National Nanotechnology Research Center and Institute of Materials Science and Nanotechnology, Bilkent University, Ankara, 06800, Turkey

    Mustafa Ordu

  3. Division of Materials Science and Engineering, Boston University, Brookline, MA, 02446, USA

    Jicheng Guo, Shyamsunder Erramilli, Siddharth Ramachandran & Soumendra N. Basu

  4. Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL, 60439, USA

    Jicheng Guo

  5. School of Engineering, Roger Williams University, Bristol, RI, 02809, USA

    Ahmet E. Akosman

  6. Department of Physics, Boston University, Boston, MA, 02215, USA

    Shyamsunder Erramilli

  7. Photonics Center, Boston University, Boston, MA, 02215, USA

    Shyamsunder Erramilli, Siddharth Ramachandran & Soumendra N. Basu

  8. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Boston University, Boston, MA, 02215, USA

    Siddharth Ramachandran

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Ordu, M., Guo, J., Akosman, A.E. et al. Effect of Thermal Annealing on Mid-Infrared Transmission in Semiconductor Alloy-Core Glass-Cladded Fibers. Adv. Fiber Mater. 2, 178–184 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s42765-020-00030-2

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