Fabrication of fluorocarbon polymer-coated silver hollow-glass waveguides for the infrared by the liquid-phase coating method
Abstract
Fluorocarbon polymer-coated silver hollow-glass waveguides have been fabricated based on the method of silver mirror reaction for silver, and the dipping method for the fluorocarbon polymer. The waveguides show low-loss properties for the infrared wavelengths except for the wavelength regions of large absorption of the polymer. Er:YAG laser light has been successfully transmitted through the flexible waveguides with small bending losses.
- Publication:
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Optics Laser Technology
- Pub Date:
- December 1995
- DOI:
- 10.1016/0030-3992(95)00041-0
- Bibcode:
- 1995OptLT..27..393O