The Loss of Optical Fiber with Pure Quartz Core and Fluorine—Doped Glass Cladding

Yaming Gao, Guang Feng, Yongjian Liu, Shuwen Zhou, Shouzheng Zhu

The 46 Institute of China Electronics Science and Technique Group Corporation, Tianjin, China.

DOI: 10.4236/opj.2013.31019                

Abstract

The optical fiber with pure quartz core and Fluorine-doped glass cladding was made by POD (plasma outside deposition) technique in some corporations, while we used the creative technique of “overcladding F-doped tube onto quartz rod in high temperature” to make the optical fiber which has the same structure as that from POD, in order to research and compare the influence factors on the loss of the fiber, our research work includes contrast experiments on coating polymers with different refractive index and the concentricity error of the fiber core and cladding. The measurement results show us that there are great differences in the loss spectra between the different fiber samples. We made analysis of it.

Keywords

Optical Fiber; Pure Quartz Core; Large Diameter Core; Cladding with F-Doped Glass; The Optical Fiber of Transmitting Light Energy

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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