Abstract:
A co-doped silicate optical waveguide having a core including silica, and oxides of aluminum, germanium, erbium and thulium. The composition concentrations are: Er from 15 ppm to 3000 ppm; Al from 0.5 mol % to 12 mol %; Tm from 15 ppm to 10000 ppm; and Ge from 1 mol % to 20 mol %. In a specific embodiment, the concentration of Er is from 150 ppm to 1500 ppm; Al is from 2 mol % to 8 mol %; and Tm is from 15 ppm to 3000 ppm. A boron-less cladding surrounds the core.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to an optical fiber and a planar waveguide for achieving a uniform optical attenuation, which comprises a core co-doped with a first metal ions having an optical absorption coefficient of a negative slope in a particular wavelength band and a second metal ions having an optical absorption coefficient of a positive slope in a predetermined wavelength band.
Abstract:
Optical fibers are described that exhibit reduced splice loss. Further described are techniques for fabricating optical fibers exhibiting reduced splice loss. One described fiber includes a plurality of regions, one region having a higher viscosity and the other region having a lower viscosity, such that when the fiber is drawn under tension, a strain is frozen into the higher viscosity region. A lower viscosity buffer layer is sandwiched between the higher viscosity region and the lower viscosity region. The buffer layer isolates the lower viscosity region from changes in refractive index in the higher viscosity region arising from a change in the strain frozen into the higher viscosity region.
Abstract:
A method for making extreme ultraviolet lithography tool glass substrates includes generating a plasma, delivering reactants comprising a silica precursor and a titania precursor into the plasma to produce titania and silica particles, and depositing the titania and silica particles on a deposition surface to form a homogeneous titania-doped silica. The invention provides for homogeneous glass substrates that are free of striae variations and provides for beneficial extreme ultraviolet lithography reflective optics.
Abstract:
Suppression of stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) by broadening the energy spectrum of participating SBS photons and/or phonons is achieved in an optical fiber having a core with both radially nonuniform viscosity and CTE profiles provided by alternating layers of glass modifying dopants such as phosphorous and fluorine. The nonuniform thermal expansion and viscosity profiles impart a residual, permanent, nonuniform stress in the fiber. The SBS suppressing effect provided by the nonuniform stress can be controlled and enhanced by applying a uniform or nonuniform tensile force to the fiber as it is being drawn. A preform for the fiber is also disclosed.
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 fusion splice including a first optical fiber having a first MFD and a first MFD expansion rate. The splice further includes a second fiber having a second MFD and a second MFD expansion rate, wherein the second MFD is lower than the first MFD. The second fiber comprises a core, a cladding radially surrounding the core, and a zone of high-concentration of fluorine between the core and the cladding. The rate of MFD expansion of the first fiber is less than the rate of MFD expansion of the second fiber during the fusion splicing operation.
Abstract:
Provided is an optical fiber having holes extending along the axis whose transmission loss is substantially reduced and the manufacturing method thereof. First, a plurality of through-holes 9 are formed in a preform 5 extending along the preform axis. Subsequently, the preform 5 is heated by heating means 24 in the furnace preferably for 30 minutes or more at a temperature equal to or more than 800null C. while flowing a dry gas in the through-holes 9. As a result, the OH group which exists on the surfaces of the inner walls 5a of the through-holes 9 of the preform 5 is discharged outside the preform. Subsequently, the preform 5 is drawn into an optical fiber.
Abstract:
An optical fiber including a core having an area of about several times an optical wavelength and composed of a hollow hole, and a cladding having a diffraction grating which is arranged at least in a peripheral area adjacent to the core and has a grating period equal to ½ the optical wavelength.
Abstract:
A non-porous, transparent glass-ceramic body that is consolidated from a predominately silica-based preform (SiO2+GeO2 85-99.0 wt. %) containing rare earth fluoride crystals embedded within by solution chemistry. The glass ceramic body is suited for making fibers for optical amplifiers.