Abstract
Conference Title: 2016 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO) Conference Start Date: 2016, June 5 Conference End Date: 2016, June 10 Conference Location: San Jose, CA, USA Double-crucible cane fabrication of highly purified chalcogenide-glass was combined with multimaterial thermal fiber drawing to produce robust low-loss 0.2 NA chalcogenide fibers monolithically provided with a polymer jacket and featuring losses <1 dB/m across the infrared.