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APPLIED OPTICS
Volume 41, Issue 33, Pages 7031-7035Publisher
OPTICAL SOC AMER
DOI: 10.1364/AO.41.007031
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A 250-mum-bore size and 50-cm-length hollow-glass waveguide (HGW) coated with a thin film of silver has been used to transport laser pulses at 800 nm from a Ti:sapphire oscillator. The silver film is deposited by a liquid-phase process. The measured transmission of this silver-coated HGW is 95%, which is considerably higher than the transmission of HGWs with no coating, as reported by other groups. The image of the output beam taken at different distances from the fiber output shows that a single HE,, mode couples to free-space modes from the exit of the fiber. Considerable spectral broadening can be obtained with high-intensity femtosecond pulses when this waveguide is filled with argon. This HGW can be used for such applications as beam transport and optical-pulse compression. (C) 2002 Optical Society of America.
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