Development of Broadband Single-Mode Cr-Doped Silica Fibers

Abstract

The fabrication of broadband single-mode Cr-doped silica fibers (SMCDSFs) using the fiber drawing-tower method with the modified rod-in-tube technique is demonstrated for the first time. A single-mode characteristic of SMCDSF was observed when the propagation wavelengths were longer than 1310 nm. The transmission loss was about 8 dB/m at 1550 nm. The successful fabrication of SMCDSFs may facilitate the possibility for utilizing the SMCDSFs as a new generation broadband fiber amplifier to cover the bandwidths in the whole 1300- to 1600-nm range of low-loss windows of silica fibers.