Novel, Organically Doped, Sol–Gel-Derived Materials for Photonics: Multiphasic Nanostructured Composite Monoliths and Optical Fibers

✍ Scribed by Raz Gvishi; Upvan Narang; Gary Ruland; Deepak N. Kumar; Paras N. Prasad

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1997
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 315 KB
• Volume: 11
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0268-2605
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1099-0739(199702)11:2<107::aid-aoc565>3.0.co;2-j

✦ Synopsis

Sol-gel-processed organic-inorganic hybrid materials combine the merits of inorganic glass and organic molecules, and are therefore a class of materials with good potential for photonics. In this review, two approaches which have shown promising results for producing useful materials for photonics are described: (i) a novel way to fabricate organically doped, multiphasic nanostructured composite monoliths and (ii) a method of fabrication of organically doped, sol-gelderived optical fibers. For each approach, the preparation process is presented, together with selected applications such as multidye solid-state tunable laser, multiphasic optical power limiter, a micron-scale chemical-sensing and biosensing fibers and solid-state dye-doped fiber lasers.