Heat-resisting polymer-coated silver hollow glass waveguides for medical applications

Yuji Kato; Mitsuo Osawa; Satoshi Kubota; Mitsunobu Miyagi; Shin-ichi Abe; Masaru Aizawa; Shinji Onodera

doi:10.1117/12.208390

1 May 1995 Heat-resisting polymer-coated silver hollow glass waveguides for medical applications

Yuji Kato, Mitsuo Osawa, Satoshi Kubota, Mitsunobu Miyagi, Shin-ichi Abe, Masaru Aizawa, Shinji Onodera

Proceedings Volume 2396, Biomedical Optoelectronic Instrumentation; (1995) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.208390
Event: Photonics West '95, 1995, San Jose, CA, United States

Abstract

Heat-resisting polyimide-coated silver hollow glass waveguides have been fabricated for infrared medical laser light transmissions. The waveguides have inner diameters of 700 and 530 micrometers and the length of 1 m. The measurements of the guiding loss spectra show the low-loss property of the waveguides at the desired wavelengths. Moreover, Er:YAG laser light has been transmitted by the 700 micrometers -bore waveguide with the losses as low as 2.2 dB even when the waveguide is bent with a bending radius of 15 cm (180 degree(s)-bend).

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Yuji Kato, Mitsuo Osawa, Satoshi Kubota, Mitsunobu Miyagi, Shin-ichi Abe, Masaru Aizawa, and Shinji Onodera "Heat-resisting polymer-coated silver hollow glass waveguides for medical applications", Proc. SPIE 2396, Biomedical Optoelectronic Instrumentation, (1 May 1995); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.208390

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