Fluoride Transparent Glass Ceramics An Emerging Material

5 Fluoride Transparent Glass Ceramics An Emerging Material 

In this chapter, we have shown that fluoride glass-confined waveguides with an acceptable propagation loss level (i.e. 0.5 dB/cm) can be obtained by suitable combination of composition and fabrication technique. This was areal challenge knowing the low thermal stability of fluoride glasses toward crystalhzation in comparison to oxide homologues. 

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