Abstract:
본 발명은 툴륨 이온이 첨가된 규산염 유리 및 그 용도에 관한 것으로, 특히, 1.4㎛대역의 형광방출 특성이 우수한 새로운 조성의 툴륨 첨가 규산염 유리에 관한 것이다. 본 발명에 따른 규산염 유리는 산화규소(SiO 2 ) 65~95몰%; ZnO, BaO, SrO 및 PbO 로 이루어진 중 선택된 하나 또는 둘 이상을 포함하는 2가 금속 산화물 0.5~30몰%; SnO 2 및 TiO 2 중 선택된 하나 또는 둘을 모두 포함하는 4가 금속 산화물 1~15몰%;를 포함하는 유리기지 조성을 가지며, 상기 유리기지 조성 중 3~30몰%의 산소(O)가 불소(F)로 치환되어 있고, 활성이온으로서의 툴륨 이온이 0.01~1몰% 첨가된 규산염 유리로서, 여기서 상기 툴륨 이온의
3 H 4 의 형광수명이 50㎲이상인 것을 특징으로 한다. 또한 상기 유리기지 조성에 K 2 O, Rb 2 O, Cs 2 O 중 선택된 하나 또는 둘 이상을 포함하는 알칼리 금속 산화물 0.5~5몰%; 및/또는 In 2 O 3 및 Sb 2 O 3 중 선택된 하나 또는 둘을 모두 포함하는 3가 금속 산화물 1~15몰%이 더 포함될 수도 있다. 본 발명에 따른 툴륨 이온이 첨가된 규산염 유리는 광섬유 등의 광도파로 형태로 제작하기가 용이하고, 전송용 광섬유와의 접속 특성도 우수할 뿐 아니라 내구성 및 내수성이 우수한 규산염 유리를 기초로 하고 있으면서도, 문제가 되었던 매질 자체의 높은 포논 에너지로 인한 다중 포논 완화에 의한 비복사 전이를 억제하고 3 H 4 준위의 형광 수명을 증가시켜 우수한 1.4 ㎛ 대역 형광 방출 특성을 나타낼 수 있다.
Abstract:
PURPOSE: An apparatus for fabricating a multi optical fiber coupler is provided to reduce fabrication cost of the optical fiber coupler and to fabricate several optical fiber couplers at the same time. CONSTITUTION: A multi micro torch(130) heats a fixed part to fuse a plurality of optical fibers by two in a pair. A multi optical fiber holder(120) is arranged symmetrically on both sides by referring to the micro torch, and fixes the plurality of optical fibers by two in an equal interval. And a transportation stage(110) is loaded with the multi micro torch and the multi optical fiber holder, and enables to move the multi optical fiber holder. And a driving motor(160) moves the optical fiber to move the optical fiber holder.
Abstract:
An optical amplifier of the present invention includes a pump source for generating a pumping light, a wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) coupler for multiplexing an inputted optical signal and the pumping light and an optical fiber including a core and a clad, wherein the core has holmium ions less than 0.5 mole % and the clad has ions selected from the group consisting of transition metal ions, rare earth ions and a combination thereof. In addition, the phonon energy of a host material is less than 600 cm-1 and an absorption band at short-wavelength side is shorter than 530 nm.
Abstract:
PURPOSE: A polarized optical fiber, a method for manufacturing the polarized optical fiber and a distribution compensator are provided to easily implement the splicing of other optical fibers and to remove the splicing loss since the end of the polarized optical fiber maintains the structures of core and cladding of a conventional optical fiber with original shape. CONSTITUTION: A polarized optical fiber includes a pair ends of an optical fiber and a central portion of the optical fiber. In the polarized optical fiber, one end or both ends maintain the original shape of a core(500) and a cladding(510) of a conventional optical fiber. The central portion of the optical fiber is a portion excepting the one end or both ends of the optical fiber and a groove is formed at a portion of the cladding(510) in such a way that the central portion of the optical fiber has a surface adjacent to the core(500) in a lengthwise direction of the optical fiber. The polarization of the optical fiber is formed by an electrode(900) placed at the surface adjacent to the core(500) of the groove.
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PURPOSE: An optical fiber laser resonator is provided, which is used as a pumping source of a Tm-doped fiber amplifier of a non-silica family. CONSTITUTION: The first optical fiber(20) is connected to a laser diode(10) by a pig tailed form, and the second optical fiber(40) is connected by a different structure from the first optical fiber. The third optical fiber(31) consists of a cladding(42) and a core(41) where a grating is engraved and is configured to connect both ends of the first and second optical fibers by a tapering method. The first optical fiber is an SMA cable, the second optical fiber is a dual clad fiber which consists of a Yb-doped core and a cladding. GeO2 is doped in a core where the grating of the third optical fiber is engraved. A silica(32) as a packing means is configured such that an air gap is formed at the outside of the third optical fiber so that light passing through the cladding of the third optical fiber progresses smoothly.
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PURPOSE: Provided is a clad mold for producing optical fiber by a melting method which can be prepared economically in a simple process, and thereby it is possible to prevent a parent material of optical fiber from being contaminated by impurities and deteriorated in its quality. CONSTITUTION: The mold of clad(10) for producing a parent material of optical fiber comprises a clad mold(11) of a pipe shape having an end closed, a predetermined length and an inner diameter corresponding to a diameter of a clad; and a cylindrical core rod(12) attached to the closed end of the clad mold(11) in the same axis as the clad mold(11) and having a predetermined length and an outer diameter corresponding to a diameter of a core to be formed. The clad mold is prepared by (i) pouring melted glass to a hollow of the mold of clad(10), followed by solidifying the glass to form a clad; (ii) removing the clad mold(11); (iii) removing the core rod(12); and (iv) inserting a core rod into a hollow formed by removing the core rod in the step (iii).
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PURPOSE: An optical wave guide, in which rare earth ion is added, is provided to transform an amplified spontaneous emission spectrum with transition of erbium from ¬4I13/2 to ¬4I15/2 for making the gain in a shorter wavelength than 1530mm. CONSTITUTION: The optical wave guide, in which rare earth ion is added, includes a core and a clad. The core is a central layer and the light is transmitted from the core. The clad makes that the light doesn't escape to the outside. The erbium(Er) ion is doped in the appointed distance of the central point of the core. The rare earth ion is doped on the inside or the surface of the core distant from the central point of the core. The rare earth ion is dysprosium(Dy), thulium(Tm), terbium(Tb) or neodymium(Nd) ion. The range of the distance between the erbium doping field and the rare earth doping field is to a semi-diameter of the core from 20mm.
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PURPOSE: Provided are thulium and dysprosium doped glass and photoelectric elements which have high efficiency using the same. CONSTITUTION: The glass used as a medium of a photoelectric element has a thulium ion and dysprosium ion doped composition, wherein the base glass is selected from tellurite glass, heavy metal oxide glass, fluoride glass and so on. The photoelectric elements are composed of the thulium ion and dysprosium ion doped glass and is an optical amplifier or optical fiber laser having a bandwidth of 1.42-1.53 micrometer.
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PURPOSE: A low phonon energy glass added complex ion and an optic fiber amplifier are provided to enhance an excitation efficiency of 980 nm zone by adding an erbium adding glass having a low phonon energy as tellurites to a cerium. CONSTITUTION: In the case that an erbium is only added and a spectrum generated from a glass adding an erbium and a cerium, a fluorescent strength on 980 nm generated by 4I11/2 to 4I15/2 transition is greatly decreased, and a fluorescent strength on 1530 nm generated by 4I13/2 to 4I15/2 transition is greatly increased. According as an adding density of a cerium is increased, a transition velocity of 4I11/2. If the cerium is 4 mole %, the increase amount is little decreased. A theoretical releasing transition velocity from 4I11/2 of tellurites glass to 4I13/2 is 45 s-1, and a multi-phonon relaxation velocity is about 4500 s-1. Thus, a transition velocity is enhanced about 2000 s-1 by adding 1 mole% cerium. An excitation efficiency of 980 nm zone is enhanced by adding a glass phonon energy thereof is 800 cm-1 to a cerium.