Polarization-maintaining hollow glass waveguides with noncircular bore

Daniel J. Gibson; James A. Harrington

doi:10.1117/1.1646411

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1 March 2004 Polarization-maintaining hollow glass waveguides with noncircular bore

Daniel J. Gibson, James A. Harrington

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Optical Engineering, 43(3), (2004). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.1646411

Hollow waveguides are made from square and rectangular glass tubing for the transmission of polarized CO₂ laser radiation. These hollow noncircular cross section glass waveguides have Ag and AgI thin film coatings deposited on the inside surface using liquid-phase chemistry techniques. The losses for straight square (500×500 µm) and rectangular (225×1250 µm) hollow glass waveguides at 10.6 µm were 0.8 and 2.2 dB/m, respectively. The degree of polarization is more than 90% for the rectangular waveguides, and this degree of polarization is preserved when rectangular guides are bent or twisted to rotate the polarization.

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Daniel J. Gibson and James A. Harrington "Polarization-maintaining hollow glass waveguides with noncircular bore," Optical Engineering 43(3), (1 March 2004). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.1646411

Published: 1 March 2004

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