Abstract
Strong absorption from the impurities and background scattering induced by heterophase inclusions are major issue in the applications of Ge-As-S glass in mid-infrared (MIR). Here, we report that, the absorption of impurities sourced from raw materials can be removed effectively by oxygen getters and hydrogen getters under static vacuum distillation, leading to almost disappearance of the absorption at 3.11 μm due to SH, <4.08 ppm at 4.01 μm due to SH and < 11.03 ppm at 7.5 μm due to As-O, respectively, in Ge10As28S62. The impurities of H2O and CO2 can be further eliminated to near zero by dynamic distillation. On the other hand, the heterophase inclusions, originating from raw materials of sulfur, arsenic and germanium, the silica-container and deoxidizer of Mg, can be eliminated thoroughly by dynamic distillation and optimized melting temperature. We draw the fibers using unpurified and purified glasses and found that, comparing with the fiber loss of 2.87 dB/m at unpurified glass, the optical loss can be decreased to about 1.86 dB/m in purified glass without any visible particles or heterophase inclusions. All the results pave the way of developing low loss Ge-As-S glass fiber for high power laser delivery.
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