Mid-infrared hollow core fiber drawn from a 3D printed chalcogenide glass preform

Julie Carcreff (1) , François Cheviré (1) , Elodie Galdo (1) , Ronan Lebullenger (1) , Antoine Gautier (1) , Jean-Luc Adam (1) , David Le Coq (1) , Laurent Brilland (2) , Radwan Chahal (2) , Gilles Renversez (3, 4) , Johann Troles (1)

1 ISCR - Institut des Sciences Chimiques de Rennes
2 SelenOptics - SelenOptics [Bruz]
3 FRESNEL - Institut FRESNEL
4 ATHENA - ATHENA

We report the fabrication of a microstructured optical fiber drawn from a soft glass 3D printed preform. For this proof of concept, a chalcogenide glass that is well known for its capability to be shaped at low temperature and its mid-infrared transmission was selected: Te20As30Se50. The obtained negative curvature hollow core fiber shows several transmission bands in the 2–12 µm range that are reproduced numerically using finite element-based simulations and coupled mode theory.

Domains: Chemical Sciences; Chemical Sciences; Material chemistry; Physics [physics]; Physics [physics]; Optics [physics.optics]; Engineering Sciences [physics]; Optics / Photonic

Julie Carcreff, François Cheviré, Elodie Galdo, Ronan Lebullenger, Antoine Gautier, et al.. Mid-infrared hollow core fiber drawn from a 3D printed chalcogenide glass preform. Optical Materials Express, 2021, 11 (1), pp.198-209. ⟨10.1364/OME.415090⟩. ⟨hal-03088546⟩