Extruded tellurite glass and fibers with low OH content for mid-infrared applications

Optical Materials Express

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 432-442

  Ebendorff Heidepriem, Heike ^a   Kuan, Kevin ^a   Oermann, Michael R ^a   Knight, Kenton ^a   Monro, Tanya M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DRY ATMOSPHERES; EXTRUDED ROD; GLASS MELTING; HYDROXYL GROUPS; MELT VOLUME; MELTING CONDITIONS; MIDINFRARED; OH CONTENTS; OPTICAL FIBER DEVICES; TELLURITE GLASS; TELLURITE GLASS FIBER;

GLASS FIBERS; GLASS MANUFACTURE; INFRARED DEVICES; OPTICAL FIBERS;

TELLURIUM COMPOUNDS;

EID: 84862147977     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21593930     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OME.2.000432     Document Type: Article

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