Abstract:
A glass composite for use in Extreme Ultra-Violet Lithography (EUVL) is provided. The glass composite includes a first silica-titania glass section. The glass composite further includes a second doped silica-titania glass section mechanically bonded to a surface of the first silica-titania glass section, wherein the second doped silica-titania glass section has a thickness of greater than about 1.0 inch.
Abstract:
A light amplifying optical fiber capable of restricting a reduction in amplifying efficiency and non-linearity caused by the concentration quenching of erbium ions. At least one of rare earth elements, having an ion radius at least 70% and up to 130% of that of erbium and excluding erbium, for example, Yb, is added to the core portion of an erbium-ion-added light amplifying optical fiber.
Abstract:
Various embodiments described herein include rare earth doped glass compositions that may be used in optical fiber and rods having large core sizes. Such optical fibers and rods may be employed in fiber lasers and amplifiers. The index of refraction of the glass may be substantially uniform and may be close to that of silica in some embodiments. Possible advantages to such features include reduction of formation of additional waveguides within the core, which becomes increasingly a problem with larger core sizes.
Abstract:
Various embodiments described herein include rare earth doped glass compositions that may be used in optical fiber and rods having large core sizes. Such optical fibers and rods may be employed in fiber lasers and amplifiers. The index of refraction of the glass may be substantially uniform and may be close to that of silica in some embodiments. Possible advantages to such features include reduction of formation of additional waveguides within the core, which becomes increasingly a problem with larger core sizes.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to a glass article for use as an optical waveguide fiber (1), the core (4) of which is doped with a chalcogenide element to significantly increase the refractive index of the core (4). The subject of this invention is novel doped silica core composition wherein a portion of the oxygen in the silica is replaced with either sulfur, selenium or tellurium using plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition (PECVD). These compositions are designed to have higher refractive indices than silica, low coefficient of expansion, high optical transparency and appropriate viscosity and softening points to make them ideal candidates for use as optical waveguide fibers.
Abstract:
A method for controlling the refractive index achieved using a fluorine dopant gas, wherein CF4 is employed as the dopant gas, and the soot preform (12) is doped using the CF4 for a time and temperature sufficient to result in a decrease in fluorine dopant nearest the surface which is in contact with the CF4 gas. Preform (12) is mounted on handle (11) which is fused to handle (14) and the assembly (20) is heated in a furnace muffle (15). The CF4 flows through furnace muffle (15), as indicated by arrows (17), and preferably contains a diluent gas such as helium. An optional centerflow gas (16) may be flowed through the centerline hole (18) in several embodiments, which consists of helium. The end of the porous preform (12) may optionally include a capillary tube (19) to prevent the muffle gases (17) from entering the preform.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to a glass article for use as an optical waveguide fiber (1), the core (4) of which is doped with a chalcogenide element to significantly increase the refractive index of the core (4). The subject of this invention is novel doped silica core composition wherein a portion of the oxygen in the silica is replaced with either sulfur, selenium or tellurium using plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition (PECVD). These compositions are designed to have higher refractive indices than silica, low coefficient of expansion, high optical transparency and appropriate viscosity and softening points to make them ideal candidates for use as optical waveguide fibers.
Abstract:
it has been discovered that fused silica doped with approximately equimolar amounts of Al and P, has advantageous properties that make such co-doped glass useful in a variety of applications, including optical fiber, especially polarization-maintaining optical fiber, and planar waveguides in optical and opto-electronic devices. In particular, such co-doped fused silica can have a refractive index that is lower than, or at least not significantly greater than, that of pure fused silica, even though both Al and P individually are known up-dopants for silica. The co-doped fused silica also can have a relatively low working temperature, while otherwise maintaining many of the desirable properties of fused silica, e.g., chemical inertness and relatively low coefficient of thermal expansion.
Abstract:
An ytterbium-doped optical fiber including a core containing at least ytterbium, aluminum and phosphorous and a clad surrounding the core, wherein a molar concentration of diphosphorus pentoxide with respect to phosphorus in the core is equal to a molar concentration of aluminum oxide with respect to aluminum in the core, wherein a ratio of a molar concentration of diphosphorus pentoxide with respect to phosphorus in the core to the molar concentration of ytterbium oxide with respect to ytterbium in the core is higher than or equal to 10 and lower than or equal to 30, and wherein a relative refractive index difference between the core and the clad is higher than or equal to 0.05% and lower than or equal to 0.30%.
Abstract:
An optical fiber has a core region that is doped with one or more viscosity-reducing dopants in respective amounts that are configured, such that, in a Raman spectrum with a frequency shift of approximately 600 cm -1 , the fiber has a nanoscale structure having an integrated D2 line defect intensity of less than 0.025. Alternatively, the core region is doped with one or more viscosity-reducing dopants in respective amounts that are configured such that the fiber has a residual axial compressive stress with a stress magnitude of more than 20 MPa and a stress radial extent between 2 and 7 times the core radius. According to another aspect of the invention a majority of the optical propagation through the fiber is supported by an identified group of fiber regions comprising the core region and one or more adjacent cladding regions. The fiber regions are doped with one or more viscosity-reducing dopants in respective amounts and radial positions that are configured to achieve viscosity matching among the fiber regions in the identified group.