wide range of frequencies, and new fabrication methods are key to increased applications.
In this work, THz transparency of silicon-core, silica clad fibers, refined using a traveling
solvent method, is demonstrated. The≈ 200 µm core of these fibers is shown to have good
transmission from 4.8–9 µm and 1–7 THz. Fibers were drawn on a conventional optical fiber
tower using the scalable molten core technique and CO_2 laser annealed, resulting in large …