Abstract
In high-power laser usage such as material processing, fiber-based optical power delivery is eagerly awaited for improving efficiency and flexibility of the process. In the infrared region, glass fiber-based high-power delivery is much more promising for the 5-μm band CO laser than for the 10.6-μm CO2 laser, because the optical transmission loss in the glass rapidly increases as the wavelength becomes longer, owing to multiphonon absorption.
© 1992 Optical Society of America
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