Abstract:
PURPOSE: A method for fabricating a large size preform of an optical fiber for dispersion control is provided to reduce the variation of the optical property, and to prevent the shrinking deformation of a deposition tube. CONSTITUTION: An optical fiber for dispersion control (300) comprises a core layer(310) composed of silica, germanium oxides and phosphorus oxides, and a clad layer(320) composed of silica, germanium oxides, phosphorus oxides and Freon. A coating layer(330) is disposed on the periphery of the clad. The silica is a main component of the core and the clad, the germanium oxides is added for adjusting the refraction dispersion, the phosphorus oxides is added for reducing the viscosity difference, and the Freon is added for lowering the refraction. The clad layer is deposited on the inner surface of a deposition tube, and the core layer is deposited on the inner surface of the clad layer. A hollow section remaining in the center of the core layer is filled by heating the deposition tube along the axial direction thereof using a burner. It is possible to achieve the uniform optical property by minimizing the variation of the optical property even when a drawing temperature is increased for drawing the optical fiber for dispersion control from the large size preform. Also, it is possible to lower the core deposition temperature, and to reduce the concentration time.
Abstract:
Methods for forming optical fiber preforms are disclosed. According to one embodiment, a method for forming an optical fiber preform includes forming a preform core portion from silica-based glass soot. The silica-based glass soot may include at least one dopant species for altering an index of refraction of the preform core portion. A selective diffusion layer of silica-based glass soot may be formed around the preform core portion to form a soot preform. The selective diffusion layer may have an as-formed density greater than the density of the preform core portion. A diffusing species may be diffused through the selective diffusion layer into the preform core portion. The soot preform may be sintered such that the selective diffusion layer has a barrier density which is greater than the as-formed density and the selective diffusion layer prevents diffusion of the at least one dopant species through the selective diffusion layer.
Abstract:
Disclosed is an optical fiber having a silica-based core and a silica-based cladding, the core comprising germania, and oxides of an alkali metal and phosphorous. By appropriately selecting the concentration of alkali metal and phosphorous oxides, fibers exhibiting low attenuation and low hydrogen aged attenuation may be obtained. In a preferred embodiment, the alkali metal oxide is potassium oxide (K 2 O).
Abstract:
An optical fiber (10), comprising: (i) a rare earth doped silica based elongated core (12) with a first refractive index (n1 with an aspect ratio of 1.5 to 10; (ii) a silica based moat (13) abutting and at least substantially surrounding the core, the moat having a refractive index n2, wherein n21; (iii) a silica based inner cladding (14) surrounding the moat, the inner cladding having a third refractive index (n3), wherein n1>n3; and n3>n2; (iv) a silica based outer cladding (16) surrounding said inner cladding, the outer cladding having a fourth refractive index (n4), such that n43; the optical fiber exhibits single polarization at the operating wavelength band.
Abstract:
The invention relates to lasers and fiber optics. An amplifying optical fiber operating at a wavelength in the range of 1000-1700 nm comprises an oxide glass core to provide amplification and at least one oxide glass cladding. According to the invention the core contains oxides of elements selected from the group consisting of silicon, germanium, phosphorus, bismuth, aluminum, gallium at concentration of bismuth oxide of 10-4-5 mol %, concentration of silicon and germanium oxides, taken together or separately, of 70-99.8999 mol %, concentration of aluminum and gallium oxides, taken together or separately, of 0.1-20 mol %, concentration of phosphorus oxide from 0 to 10 mol %, and provides a maximum optical gain at least 10 times greater than the nonresonant loss factor in the optical fiber. An outside oxide glass cladding comprises fused silica. The optical fiber core has an absorption band in the 1000 nm region, pumping to which region provides an increased efficiency of power conversion of pump light into luminescence light in the 1000-1700 nm range as compared to pumping to another absorption bands in which pumping brings about luminescence in the 1000-1700 nm range. The optical fiber emits luminescence in the range of 1000-1700 nm when excited by light with wavelengths in the range of 750-12000 nm and a half-height width of the luminescence band of more than 120 nm, and luminescence band boundaries defined as points in which the luminescence intensity drops twice relative to the intensity in the luminescence band maximum lie within the 1000-1700 nm spectral range.
Abstract:
A method of making an optical fiber precursor includes generating vapors from an alkali metal source comprising compound containing oxygen and one or more alkali metals and applying the vapors to a surface of a glass article comprising silica at a temperature that promotes diffusion of the alkali metal into the surface of the glass article. An optical fiber has a core comprising silica and an alkali metal oxide of the form X 2 O, where X is selected from the group consisting of K, Na, Li, Cs, and Rb, wherein a concentration of the alkali metal oxide along a length of the core is uniform.
Abstract translation:制造光纤前体的方法包括从包含氧和一种或多种碱金属的化合物的碱金属源生成蒸气,并在促进碱金属扩散的温度下将蒸气施加到包含二氧化硅的玻璃制品的表面 玻璃制品的表面。 光纤具有包含二氧化硅和X 2 O 2形式的碱金属氧化物的核,其中X选自K,Na,Li,Cs和Rb,其中浓度 的碱金属氧化物沿芯的长度是均匀的。
Abstract:
The invention relates to a method for doping material, the method being characterized by depositing at least one dopant deposition layer or a part thereof on the surface of the material and/or on a surface of a part or parts thereof with the atom layer deposition (ALD) method, and further processing the material coated with a dopant in such a manner that the original structure of the dopant layer is changed to obtain new properties for the doped material. The material to be doped is preferably glass, ceramic, polymer, metal, or a composite material made thereof, and the further processing of the material coated with the dopant is a mechanical, chemical, radiation, or heat treatment, whereby the aim is to change the refraction index, absorbing power, electrical and/or heat conductivity, colour, or mechanical or chemical durability of the doped material.
Abstract:
High rate deposition methods comprise depositing a powder coating from a product flow. The product flow results from a chemical reaction within the flow. Some of the powder coatings consolidate under appropriate conditions into an optical coating. The substrate can have a first optical coating onto which the powder coating is placed. The resulting optical coating following consolidation can have a large index-of-refraction difference with the underlying first optical coating, high thickness and index-of-refraction uniformity across the substrate and high thickness and index-of-refraction uniformity between coatings formed on different substrates under equivalent conditions. In some embodiments, the deposition can result in a powder coating of at least about 100 nm in no more than about 30 minutes with a substrate having a surface area of at least about 25 square centimeters.
Abstract:
A method of forming an alkali metal oxide-doped optical fiber by diffusing an alkali metal into a surface of a glass article is disclosed. The silica glass article may be in the form of a tube or a rod, or a collection of tubes or rods. The silica glass article containing the alkali metal, and impurities that may have been unintentionally diffused into the glass article, is etched to a depth sufficient to remove the impurities. The silica glass article may be further processed to form a complete optical fiber preform. The preform, when drawn into an optical fiber, exhibits a low attenuation.
Abstract:
A method for forming an optical fiber includes drawing at a high draw rate, e.g. preferably > 10m/s the optical fiber from a glass preform and treating (annealing or slow cooling) the fiber by maintaining the optical fiber within a treatment temperature range for a short treatment time, e.g. 830 ° C/s and