Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Optics and Precision Engineering IOF plans to acquire a machine for the fabrication of doped SiO2 material via chemical vapor deposition. The material will be used to develop highly specialized high-power fiber lasers. Dopants of interest are Aluminum, Fluorine and Rare Earth Oxides (e.g. Ytterbium, Thulium, Cerium, etc.). However, the machinery should not be limited to these dopants and other dopants should in principle be possible as well. For chemical purity the deposition process should take place inside a fused silica substrate tube and all dopants should be fed into the deposition zone in the gas phase.

Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Optics and Precision Engineering IOF plans to acquire a machine for the fabrication of doped SiO2 material via chemical vapor deposition. The material will be used to develop highly specialized high-power fiber lasers. Dopants of interest are Aluminum, Fluorine and Rare Earth Oxides (e.g. Ytterbium, Thulium, Cerium, etc.). However, the machinery should not be limited to these dopants and other dopants should in principle be possible as well. For chemical purity the deposition process should take place inside a fused silica substrate tube and all dopants should be fed into the deposition zone in the gas phase.