Nanoparticle-doped radioluminescent silica optical fibers

0436368 - ÚFE 2015 RIV US eng C - Conference Paper (international conference)
Mrázek, Jan - Nikl, Martin - Kašík, Ivan - Podrazký, Ondřej - Aubrecht, Ivo - Beitlerová, Alena
Nanoparticle-doped radioluminescent silica optical fibers.
OPTICAL FIBERS AND THEIR APPLICATIONS 2014. Vol. 9228. Bellingham: SPIE, 2014 - (Dorosz, J.; Romaniuk, R.), s. 922805. ISBN 978-1-62841-275-8. ISSN 0277-786X.
[15th Symposia on Optical Fibers and their Applications. Bialystok (PL), 29.01.2014-01.02.2014]
Institutional support: RVO:67985882 ; RVO:68378271
Keywords : Fiber optic sensors * Nanoparticles * Optical fibers
Subject RIV: JA - Electronics ; Optoelectronics, Electrical Engineering; CF - Physical ; Theoretical Chemistry (FZU-D)

This contribution deals with the preparation and characterization of the silica optical fibers doped by nanocrystalline zinc silicate. The sol-gel approach was employed to prepare colloidal solution of zinc silicate precursors. Prepared sol was thermally treated to form nanocrystalline zinc silicate disperzed inside amorphous silica matrix or soaked inside the porous silica frit deposed inside the silica substrate tube which was collapsed into preform and drawn into optical fiber. Single mode optical fiber with the core diameter 15 μm and outer diamer 125 μm was prepared. Optical and waveguiding properties of the fiber were analyzed. Concentration of the zinc silicate in the fiber was 0.93 at. %. Radioluminescence properties of nanocrystalline zinc silicate powder and of the prepared optical fiber were investigated. The nanoparticle doped samples appear a emission maximum at 390 nm
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