Hundreds of meter-long low-loss silicon-core optical fiber

Maryna Kudinova; Géraud Bouwmans; Rémi Habert; Stéphane Plus; Karen Baudelle; Rémy Bernard; Bertrand Chazallon; Andy Cassez; Hicham El Hamzaoui; Olivier Vanvincq; Johann Troles; Laurent Bigot

doi:10.1117/12.2544173

3 March 2020 Hundreds of meter-long low-loss silicon-core optical fiber

Maryna Kudinova, Géraud Bouwmans, Rémi Habert, Stéphane Plus, Karen Baudelle, Rémy Bernard, Bertrand Chazallon, Andy Cassez, Hicham El Hamzaoui, Olivier Vanvincq, Johann Troles, Laurent Bigot

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Proceedings Volume 11276, Optical Components and Materials XVII; 112760W (2020) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2544173
Event: SPIE OPTO, 2020, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

Hybrid optical fibers, i.e. optical fibers that combine, in the same structure, glass with crystal, metal, polymer or a second type of glass, open access to a wide range of optical properties or optical functions not accessible to common single-glass-made optical fibers. Silicon-core fibers are one type of hybrid fibers that have been intensively studied since 2006 with the aim to take benefit of the mid-infrared transparency of silicon or to implement opto-electrical functions in the optical fiber itself. Some of the unique optical properties of these semiconductor-core fibers have been demonstrated but it is admitted that optical losses are still today a drag on the rise of performances and hence devote specific attention. Post-processing based on laser or thermal annealing can be applied on the as-drawn fibers to improve core crystallinity and then reduce optical losses. However, such processing techniques have been demonstrated on centimeter-long fibers only. In the present paper, we demonstrate as-drawn silicon-core fiber with loss level below 0.2 dB/cm on the 1250-1650nm wavelength range, this fiber being continuously manufactured over length exceeding one hundred of meters. Several fibers have been fabricated from a rod-in-stack approach and different core dimensions ranging from about 0.8 to 3.4 μm have been successively realized and extensive characterizations (XRD, micro-Raman spectroscopy, TEM and ToF-SIMS analysis) have been conducted on the 3.4 μm core fiber. The crystalline state of the core, the absence of oxygen contamination and the optical transmission from 1.1 to 4 μm will be presented.

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Maryna Kudinova, Géraud Bouwmans, Rémi Habert, Stéphane Plus, Karen Baudelle, Rémy Bernard, Bertrand Chazallon, Andy Cassez, Hicham El Hamzaoui, Olivier Vanvincq, Johann Troles, and Laurent Bigot "Hundreds of meter-long low-loss silicon-core optical fiber", Proc. SPIE 11276, Optical Components and Materials XVII, 112760W (3 March 2020); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2544173

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