Tellurite-Based Core-Clad Dual-Electrodes Composites Fibers

Here, we propose to design a new class of glass/metal composite fibers for all-guided optical-electrical signals. The objective is to combine metal and glass materials by using additive manufacturing approach to engineer multimaterials fibers. Thus, after manual insertion of metallic electrodes into the tellurite glass preform, we can obtain the first tellurite-based core-clad dualelectrode composite fiber made by direct, homothetic preform-to-fiber thermal co-drawing.