Research
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Far Above the Norm – Development of Anomalous Photonic Crystal Fibers
New fiber designs allow future-oriented applications in fiber lasers – from fiber optic sensors to lab-in-fiber concepts. The point-by-point...
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First Flexible Tweezers from Light
The holographic endoscopy team created the first optical traps by controlling the propagation of light through multimode optical fibers.
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Sharp Images with Flexible Fibers
The holographic endoscopy team has found a new way to transmit image information with virtually no distortion from multimodal fibers – even if they...
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UV spectroscopy in water-filled anti-resonant hollow core fibers
Monitoring water quality becomes increasingly important nowadays due to the augmented use of antibiotics worldwide. Residual amounts of many species...
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Up to Boson Peak - Towards Enhanced Homogeneity in Optical Aluminosilicate Glasses
Optical fibers are powerful key components for miniaturizing next generation laser concepts addressing applications in personalized medicine,...
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Dispersion Analysis in a Tunable Fiber Laser
The dispersion properties of fibers describe the wavelength dependence of light propagation in waveguides. This is particularly interesting for...
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Diffusion-Reduced Large-Mode-Area Yb Fiber for High-Performance Amplifiers with Excellent Beam Quality
Based on diffusion studies of tapered Yb-doped REPUSIL fibers, a new fiber design was developed by modifying glass viscosities to amplify ultrashort...
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The Viscous Behavior of Synthetic Silica Glass Tubes During Collapsing
The viscous flow of pure and fluorine-doped silica tubes is studied by collapsing. The demonstrated method can be applied directly during MCVD preform...
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Homogenization of Doped Fused Silica via Plasma-based Processes
In order to improve the homogeneous concentration distribution of different dopants in the fused silica matrix, especially in the REPUSIL process, a...
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Multi-Octave Supercontinuum Generation in Resonance-Enhanced Anti-Resonant Hollow-Core Fibers
We will demonstrate a novel method of generating a multi-octave supercontinuum in a krypton gas-filled anti-resonant hollow-core fiber by employing...