Excitation-dependent radiation-induced losses in step-index fibers with undoped core

A. Bernhardt; Karl-Friedrich Klein; Heinz Fabian; Ulrich Grzesik; Henning Henschel; Otmar Koehn; Hans Ulrich Schmidt

doi:10.1117/12.141173

25 February 1993 Excitation-dependent radiation-induced losses in step-index fibers with undoped core

A. Bernhardt, Karl-Friedrich Klein, Heinz Fabian, Ulrich Grzesik, Henning Henschel, Otmar Koehn, Hans Ulrich Schmidt

Proceedings Volume 1791, Optical Materials Reliability and Testing: Benign and Adverse Environments; (1993) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.141173
Event: Fibers '92, 1992, Boston, MA, United States

Abstract

The radiation-induced loss of multimode step-index fibers with undoped synthetic silica core has been reduced significantly over the years. Most of the efforts focussed on material modifications and improvements of the undoped core material having either high or low OH- content. With increasing radiation resistance due to core material improvements, influences of the core-cladding interface and of the cladding material became more important. These effects can be analyzed with an improved measurement system using different excitation conditions at the frontface of the step-index fibers: low order meridional rays have high intensity in the center of the core material and low intensity in the core-cladding transition region, in contrast to high order skew or helix rays having opposite intensity profiles. The measurement system including the specific excitation conditions is described. Applying this setup, radiation-induced losses during and after continuous gamma irradiation were investigated with regard to differences of the specific excitation conditions. The measured values at 10 krad total dose differ by more than a factor of two.

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A. Bernhardt, Karl-Friedrich Klein, Heinz Fabian, Ulrich Grzesik, Henning Henschel, Otmar Koehn, and Hans Ulrich Schmidt "Excitation-dependent radiation-induced losses in step-index fibers with undoped core", Proc. SPIE 1791, Optical Materials Reliability and Testing: Benign and Adverse Environments, (25 February 1993); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.141173

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