Abstract:
PURPOSE:To obtain a chalcogenide glass for an optical fiber with low loss, by heat-treating a raw material for forming the chalcogenide glass in the stream of a gaseous halide or gaseous halogen, and melting and vitrifying the heat-treated raw material. CONSTITUTION:A Ge-S chalcogenide glass is dehydrated with S2Cl2 as a treating agent 3. The S2Cl2 is introduced into a saturator container 2, gasified by blowing a transporting gas from a transporting gas introductory port 1 into the saturator container 2, and then led to a quartz glass tube 8 provided in a quartz glass cover 5. A powdery sulfur and germanium in the form of an ingot as a raw material 7 for forming glass are introduced into the quartz glass tube 8 and heated by a heater 6, and the gasified S2Cl2 is made to flow while melting the sulfur. The S2Cl absorbs water and is decomposed in the heating part to give a gas, e.g. HCl or SO2, and the unreacted S2Cl2, which are expelled from a duct 9. The raw material 7 after the treatment is sealed up in the quartz tube 8 under reduced pressure, molten and vitrified to give a chalocgenide glass for an optical fiber.
Abstract:
Glass includes an aggregate of solid electrolyte particles including Li, P, and S, wherein when a Raman spectrum of the glass is repeatedly measured and a peak at 330 to 450 cm -1 in each Raman spectrum is separated to waveforms of individual components, a standard deviation of a waveform area ratio of each component is less than 4.0.
Abstract:
The inventive method relates to manufacturing a secondary preform (9) that is used for drawing an optical fiber (90) having a core and a cladding with different refractive indices. The method comprises the steps of - holding an outermost tube (0) with a closed lower end (09); - inserting at least an innermost tube (1) coaxially aligned into the outermost tube (0); - selecting at least one sort of intermediate glass particles (100) and one sort of innermost glass particles (101) according to the profile determined for the secondary preform (9) or the optical fiber (90); - filling the annular space (01) between the neighbouring tubes (0, 1) with the intermediate glass particles (100); - filling the innermost tube (1) that is empty or comprises a solid preform (10) with the innermost glass particles (101); - performing a final thermal process including thermally processing at least the innermost glass particles (101), the intermediate glass particles (100) and the outermost tube (0) in order to obtain a fused secondary preform (9).
Abstract:
An optical fiber, which has a zero-material dispersion wavelength equal to or greater than 2 µm, and a high nonlinear susceptibility Ç 3 equal to or greater than 1 x 10 -12 esu, and uses tellurite glass having sufficient thermal stability for processing into a low loss fiber, employs a PCF structure or HF structure having strong confinement into a core region. This enables light to propagate at a low loss. The size and geometry of air holes formed in the core region, and the spacing between adjacent air holes make it possible to control the zero dispersion wavelength within an optical telecommunication window (1.2-1.7 µm), and to achieve large nonlinearity with a nonlinear coefficient ³ equal to or greater than 500W -1 km -1 .
Abstract:
High index-contrast fiber waveguides, materials for forming high index-contrast fiber waveguides, and applications of high index-contrast fiber waveguides are disclosed.
Abstract:
A core glass rod (54) and a cladding glass rod (56) are melted in a furnace (50). The melts flow together to an orifice fitted with a plug (62). The plug (62) is removed from the furnace and a core/clad fiber is drawn from the confluence.
Abstract:
An optical member, a glass fiber, and an optical amplifier, which are made of a sulfuric chalcogenide glass having no metamorphic layer on the surface, are provided by a manufacturing method including the steps of preparing a matrix made partially or entirely of a chalcogenide glass or oxychalcogenide glass, and attaching sulfur or sulfide to at least a portion of a surface of the matrix in a physical or chemical manner. A glass fiber is manufactured by a method including the steps of preparing a matrix made partially or entirely of a chalcogenide glass or oxychalcogenide glass, and attaching sulfur or sulfide to at least a portion of a surface of the matrix in a physical or chemical manner and concurrently drawing the matrix.
Abstract:
An active single mode optical fiber has the core made of a rare earth doped non-oxide glass and the cladding made of an oxide glass. The glass of the core has a melting temperature lower than that of the glass of the cladding and lying within the range of the softening temperatures of the latter. In a preferred embodiment the core is made of a chalcogenide glass and the cladding is made of a lead silicate glass. To produce the fibre, a preform, obtained by introducing an element made of the non-oxide glass into the hole (2) of a capillary tube (1) made of the oxide glass, is brought to a temperature lying within the range of softening temperatures of the oxide glass and not lower than the melting temperature of the non-oxide glass, and is drawn. The capillary tube (1), during the drawing process, serves as a container for the molten glass of the core.