Overview of 3D Printing Bi and Er Co-Doped Silica Fibers (IMAGE)

Light Publishing Center, Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics And Physics, CAS

Overview of 3D Printing Bi and Er Co-Doped Silica Fibers

Caption

(a) Images of the 3D printed preforms and subsequently filled cores; (b) Optical fiber drawing tower used in this experiment; (c) Temperature change of the fiber drawing process; (d) loss spectrum of the 3D printed single-core, and loss of seven cores fibers at 632.8 nm; (e) emission spectra of a single core fiber excited by the 830 nm and 980 nm lasers.

Credit

by Yushi Chu, Xinghu Fu, Yanhua Luo, John Canning, Jiaying Wang, Jing Ren, Jianzhong Zhang, and Gang-Ding Peng

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