Abstract:
PURPOSE:To enable preparation of a parent material for fluoride glass fiber having superior characteristics by mixing >= two kinds of organometallic compd. contg. no oxygen in gaseous phase and heating the mixture in F2 or in a gaseous F-compd. CONSTITUTION:Organometallic compds. such as Al(CH3)3, AlC(C2H5)3, B(CH3)3, PbC(C2H5)4, Pb(C2H5)4, Sb(CH3)3, etc. are purified by distillation, then mixed in a specified proportion in gaseous phase. Simultaneously, the mixture heated with F2 or an F-contg. compd. such as CCl2F2, etc., at 900 deg.C is brought into reaction and vitrification. The molten glass is performed by casting to obtain a parent material for fluoride glass fiber which is drawn to prepare the glass fiber. Thus, a parent material for fluoride glass fiber contg. no impurities such as O2 or H2, nor oxide, and having superior characteristics is prepared stably.
Abstract:
PURPOSE:Preparation of a parent material for optical fiber of fluoride glass, wherein a core-clad interface is formed smoothly, every layer is deposited one by one by every drop, quenching effect can be expected, infrared rays with short wavelength can be transmitted, and extreme reduction in loss is possible. CONSTITUTION:While a metallic or semimetallic template having a cylindrical hollow part and a structure capable of being split into plural parts in the longitudinal direction is being rotated, droplets of glass melt are made to fall on the hollow part of the template, the composition of the glass melt is changed, so that refractive index of glass made during solidification of the droplets is changed, to give a parent material for optical fiber having a core-clad wave transmission structure. The cover 2 is put on the crucible 1 made of gold (platinum), the crucible 1 is evacuated, and the droplets 8 glass for clad are dropped at a proper speed. The template 9 of three split parts is fastened, and fixed to the rotary stand 13 by the template holder 12. A thin film of glass forced up to the wall face of the template by centrifugal force is gradually piled to form the glass raw film 20.
Abstract:
PURPOSE:To obtain a preform for an optical fiber transmitting infrared rays by fixing a fluoride glass rod at the center of the cylindrical hollow part of a mold splittable into a plurality of segments, pouring molten fluoride glass in the gap between the outer frame of the mold and the rod, and slowly cooling the glass after annealing. CONSTITUTION:A fluoride glass rod 7 is fixed at the center of the cylindrical hollow part 6 of the mold formed with an outer frame 1 vertically splittable into a plurality of segments and forming the part 6, and after preheating the rod 7 at a temp. below the transition temp. of fluoride glass, molten fluoride glass having a lower refractive index than the rod 7 is poured in the gap between the frame 1 and the rod 7. The mold is then maintained at a temp. below the transition temp. of the fluoride glass to anneal the glass, and it is slowly cooled. After the cooling the frame 1 is detached to obtain a preform for an optical fiber transmitting infrared rays.
Abstract:
Preforms are obtained (900) and drawn (910). Different preforms of different materials are also obtained (920) and drawn (930). The preforms are then stacked (950) and inserted into a tube (960). The result is then draw (970) into a lightguide that can be an optical fiber or laser or amplifer.
Abstract:
The present invention is directed to a fluorinated rare earth doped glass composition and method for making a glass-ceramic optical article therefrom, e.g. optical fiber waveguides, fiber lasers and active fiber amplifiers, having application in the 1300 nm and 1550 nm telecommunications windows. The inventive compositions include Pr3+ and/or Dy3+ in a concentration range of between 300 - 2,000 ppmw and Ag+ in a concentration range of between 500 - 2,000 ppmw; or Er3+ in a concentration range of between 500 - 5,000 ppmw and Ag+ in a concentration range of between 0 - 2,000 ppmw. The monovalent silver ion provides an ionic charge balanced glass-ceramic crystal. These compositions exhibit reduced or absent rare earth ion clustering and fluorescence quenching effects in the presence of high concentrations of rare earth ion dopants.
Abstract:
To overcome problems of fabricating conventional core-clad optical fibre from non-silica based (compound) glass, it is proposed to fabricate non-silica based (compound) glass optical fibre as holey fibre i.e. one contining Longitudinal holes in the cladding. This removes the conventional problems associated with mismatch of the physical properties of the core and clad compound glasses, since a holey fibre can be made of a single glass composition. With a holey fibre, it is not necessary to have different glasses for the core and cladding, since the necessary refractive index modulation between core and cladding is provided by the microstructure of the clad, i.e. its holes, rather than by a difference in materials properties between the clad and core glasses. Specifically, the conventional thermal mismatch problems between core and clad are circumvented. A variety of fibre types can be fabricated from non-silica based (compounds) glasses, for example: single-mode fibre; photonic band gap fibre; highly non-linear fibre; fibre with photosensitivity written gratings and other refractive index profile structures; and rare-earth doped fibres (e.g. Er, Nd, Pr) to provide gain media for fibre amplifiers and lasers.