Hollow waveguide delivery systems for laser technological application

✍ Scribed by Helena Jelı́nková; Michal Němec; Jan Šulc; Pavel Černý; Mitsunobu Miyagi; Yi-Wei Shi; Yuji Matsuura

• Book ID: 104089570
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2004
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 572 KB
• Volume: 28
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0079-6727
• DOI: 10.1016/j.pquantelec.2003.11.001

✦ Synopsis

Hollow waveguides with internal coatings can be an attractive alternative to solid-core fibers. This paper reviews the results with the cyclic olefin polymer coated metal hollow glass waveguides which can be used as a delivery instrument in a wide band of wavelengths-from the visible up to the infrared. These waveguides have been shown to be capable of transmissions up to the 1.36 GW of Nd:YAG peak power and 5.8 W or 5.1 W of alexandrite or Er:YAG mean power, respectively. They can be utilized in many branches of medical or industrial applications.