Active material cylinder fibers. Final technical report, March 1994-March 1995
The objective of this effort was to fabricate fiber optic cable with optically active material at the core cladding interface. It was discovered that there are a large number of parameters that can be varied to fabricate exactly the device required for a particular application. Much of the effort on this task was used to acquire the proper glasses and alloys required to actually draw usable fibers. Although we were unable to fabricate a fiber amplifier, we did learn enough about semiconductor materials in glass to be able to fabricate these devices in the near future. We were able to fabricate a polarization preserving fiber by depositing an AlCu alloy on the preform. Fiber drawn from this preform had the desired polarization preserving capabilities, making it a very useful device in any application requiring polarization maintaining characteristics.
- Research Organization:
- Syracuse Univ., NY (United States)
- OSTI ID:
- 285160
- Report Number(s):
- AD-A--307802/9/XAB; CNN: Contract F30602-94-C-0031
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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