Low-dispersion optical fiber highly transparent in the UV spectral range

Galina M. Ermolaeva; Mikhail A. Eron'yan; Konstantin V. Dukel'skii; Alexander V. Komarov; Yury N. Kondratev; Mikhail M. Serkov; Mikhail N. Tolstoy; Valery B. Shilov; Victor S. Shevandin; Howard T. Powell; Calvin E. Thompson

doi:10.1117/1.1814766

1 December 2004 Low-dispersion optical fiber highly transparent in the UV spectral range

Galina M. Ermolaeva, Mikhail A. Eron'yan, Konstantin V. Dukel'skii, Alexander V. Komarov, Yury N. Kondratev, Mikhail M. Serkov, Mikhail N. Tolstoy, Valery B. Shilov, Victor S. Shevandin, Howard T. Powell, Calvin E. Thompson

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Optical Engineering, Vol. 43, Issue 12, (December 2004). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.1814766

Abstract

The National Ignition Facility performs fusion experiments using ultraviolet (351 nm) light. High-bandwidth, low-attenuation optical fibers are required to transport subnanosecond, UV laser diagnostic signals from the target chamber area to recording instruments located in adjacent rooms, with some fiber runs approximately 65 m in length. Special optical fibers are developed and fabricated to perform this task, since no existing commercially available fibers possess all of the required characteristics. These large-core (435 µm) fibers have optical dispersions less than 0.9 psec/m and attenuations less than 150 dB/km at 351 nm.

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Galina M. Ermolaeva, Mikhail A. Eron'yan, Konstantin V. Dukel'skii, Alexander V. Komarov, Yury N. Kondratev, Mikhail M. Serkov, Mikhail N. Tolstoy, Valery B. Shilov, Victor S. Shevandin, Howard T. Powell, and Calvin E. Thompson "Low-dispersion optical fiber highly transparent in the UV spectral range," Optical Engineering 43(12), (1 December 2004). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.1814766

Published: 1 December 2004

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