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Three stage HCF fabrication technique for high yield, broadband UV-visible fibers

Three stage HCF fabrication technique for high yield, broadband UV-visible fibers
Three stage HCF fabrication technique for high yield, broadband UV-visible fibers

Hollow-core optical fibers can offer broadband, single mode guidance in the UVvisible- NIR wavelength range, with the potential for low-loss, solarization-free operation, making them desirable and potentially disruptive for a wide range of applications. To achieve this requires the fabrication of fibers with <300 nm anti-resonant membranes, which is technically challenging. Here we investigate the underlying fluid dynamics of the fiber fabrication process and demonstrate a new three-stage fabrication approach, capable of delivering long (∼ 350m) lengths of fiber with the desired thin-membranes.

1094-4087
7720-7730
Jackson, Gregory
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Jasion, Gregory T.
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Bradley, Thomas D.
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Poletti, Francesco
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Jackson, Gregory, Jasion, Gregory T., Bradley, Thomas D., Poletti, Francesco and Davidson, Ian A. (2024) Three stage HCF fabrication technique for high yield, broadband UV-visible fibers. Optics Express, 32 (5), 7720-7730. (doi:10.1364/OE.507703).

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Abstract

Hollow-core optical fibers can offer broadband, single mode guidance in the UVvisible- NIR wavelength range, with the potential for low-loss, solarization-free operation, making them desirable and potentially disruptive for a wide range of applications. To achieve this requires the fabrication of fibers with <300 nm anti-resonant membranes, which is technically challenging. Here we investigate the underlying fluid dynamics of the fiber fabrication process and demonstrate a new three-stage fabrication approach, capable of delivering long (∼ 350m) lengths of fiber with the desired thin-membranes.

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Accepted/In Press date: 12 January 2024
Published date: 26 February 2024
Additional Information: Publisher Copyright: © 2024 Optica Publishing Group (formerly OSA). All rights reserved.

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Local EPrints ID: 488057
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/488057
ISSN: 1094-4087
PURE UUID: e3963b52-ad9b-41a3-a1b3-d291be6bbec8
ORCID for Gregory T. Jasion: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0001-5030-6479
ORCID for Francesco Poletti: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-1000-3083

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Date deposited: 14 Mar 2024 17:32
Last modified: 02 May 2024 01:40

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Author: Gregory Jackson
Author: Gregory T. Jasion ORCID iD
Author: Thomas D. Bradley
Author: Francesco Poletti ORCID iD
Author: Ian A. Davidson

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