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Effect of fluorine doping on the optical loss in MCVD fibers based on heavily doped germanosilicate glass

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We have studied the size distribution of silica glass particles in the fabrication of heavily doped germanosilicate glass fiber preforms by modified chemical vapor deposition (MCVD) at different Freon 113 concentrations in the gas mixture. The addition of Freon 113 to the gas mixture is shown to reduce the particle size in the deposited core glass layer and the optical loss in the fiber. A mechanism is proposed which accounts for the effect of the initial particle size in the core glass layer on the anomalous scattering and total optical loss in heavily doped step- and graded-index fibers.

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  1. Fiber Optics Research Center, Russian Academy of Sciences, ul. Vavilova 38, Moscow, 119333, Russia

    M. M. Bubnov, E. M. Dianov & M. E. Likhachev

  2. Institute of Chemistry of High-Purity Substances, Russian Academy of Sciences, ul. Tropinina 49, Nizhni Novgorod, 603950, Russia

    A. N. Guryanov, L. A. Ketkova, M. Yu. Salganskii & V. F. Khopin

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Original Russian Text © M.M. Bubnov, A.N. Guryanov, E.M. Dianov, L.A. Ketkova, M.E. Likhachev, M.Yu. Salganskii, V.F. Khopin, 2010, published in Neorganicheskie Materialy, 2010, Vol. 46, No. 5, pp. 626–632.

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Bubnov, M.M., Guryanov, A.N., Dianov, E.M. et al. Effect of fluorine doping on the optical loss in MCVD fibers based on heavily doped germanosilicate glass. Inorg Mater 46, 556–562 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0020168510050213

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