Abstract:
PURPOSE:To obtain easily a single-mode optical fluoride fiber having a core of a small diameter by putting a fluoride glass preform having a core-clad structure in a fluoride glass pipe and by heating and drawing them. CONSTITUTION:A fluoride glass preform 8 having a core-clad structure is prepd., and it is heated, drawn, and put in a jacket pipe 9 covered with a fluororesin tube 10. While evacuating the pipe 9 with a rotary pump, the preform 8 and the pipe 9 are heated with a small-sized electric furnace 11 and drawn into a fiber, which is wound around a bobbin. Thus, a single-mode optical fluoride fiber having a core of a small diameter is easily obtd. The fiber can be used as a single- mode waveguide in the wavelength range of 2-4mum, the ratio in diameter between the core and clad of the fiber is 1:>=5, and the fiber has such strength as to fit for handling.
Abstract:
Aspects of the embodiments are directed to systems and methods for forming an optical fiber in a low gravity environment, and an optical fiber formed in a low gravity environment. The system can include a preform holder configured to secure a preform; a heating element secured to a heating element stage and residing adjacent the preform holder; a heating element stage motor configured to move the heating element stage; a tension sensor; a spool; a spool tension motor coupled to the spool and configured to rotate the spool; and a control system communicably coupled to the heating element stage motor and the spool tension motor and configured to control the movement of the heating element stage based on a rotational speed of the spool. The optical fiber can include a fluoride composition, such ZrF4-BaF2-LaF3-AlF3-NaF (ZBLAN), and can be characterized by an insertion loss in a range from 13dB/1000km to 120dB/1000km.
Abstract:
A method of forming a nanowire is disclosed. In one embodiment, a primary preform is formed comprising at least one central region and a support structure. The primary preform is then drawn to a cane, which is then inserted into an outer portion, to form a secondary preform. The secondary preform is then drawn until the at least one central portion is a nanowire. The method can produce nanowires of far greater length than existing methods, and can reduce the likelihood of damaging the nanowire when handling.
Abstract:
Optical devices and a method for manufacturing these devices. One optical device includes a core region having a first medium of a first refractive index nl, and includes a cladding region exterior to the core region. The cladding region includes a second medium having a second refractive index n2 higher than the first refractive index nl. The cladding region further includes a third medium having a third refractive index n3 lower than the first refractive index nl . The third medium is dispersed in the second medium to form a plurality of microstructures in the cladding region. Another optical device includes a plurality of core regions including at least one core having a doped first medium, and includes a cladding region exterior to the plurality of core regions. The core regions and the cladding region include a phosphate glass.
Abstract:
Improved photonic band-gap optical fibre The present invention relates in particular to improved photonic band-gap optical fibres that can confine light to a core region of the fibre by the action of both a photonic band-gap cladding and an antiresonant core boundary, at the interface between the core and cladding. According to embodiments of the present invention, a fibre has a core, comprising an elongate region of relatively low refractive index, a photonic bandgap structure arranged to provide a photonic bandgap over a range of wavelengths of light including an operating wavelength of light, the structure, in a transverse cross section of the waveguide, surrounding the core and comprising elongate relatively low refractive index regions interspersed with elongate relatively high refractive index regions and a relatively high refractive index boundary at the interface between the core defect and the photonic bandgap structure, the boundary having a thickness around the core such that the boundary is substantially anti-resonant at the operating wavelength of the fibre. In preferred embodiments, the core boundary is a relatively constant thickness region of glass around a hollow core.
Abstract:
The invention features high index-contrast fiber waveguides (1301) that can be drawn from a preform. The invention also features materials for forming high index-contrast fiber waveguides (1301), and guidelines for their selection. High index-contrast fiber waveguides (1301), which may include opical fibers and photonic crystal fibers, can provide enhanced radial confinement of an optical signal in the fiber waveguide (1301). Moreover, large optical energy densities can be achieved inside the high index-contrast fiber waveguides, making them attractive candidates for a number of applications.
Abstract:
High index-contrast fiber waveguides, materials for forming high index-contrast fiber waveguides are disclosed. In one of the aspect of the invention, a high index-contrast fiber (701) includes a core (710) with refractive index n1 extending along a waveguide axis and a cladding layer (720) surrounding core (710) having an index of refraction n2. The core (710) incldues a hhigh index material, e.g., a chalcogenide glass and the cladding layer (720) includes a low index material, e.g., an oxide glass and/or halide hglass. The absolute difference between n1 and n2 is at least 0.35.
Abstract:
High index-contrast fiber waveguides (701) having a core (710) and a cladding (720), material for forming high index-contrast fiber waveguides (701), and applications of high index-contrast fiber waveguides (701) are disclosed.
Abstract:
A single-mode preform (2) including a master preform (22) housed in an outer sleeve tube (20) is provided. An intermediate tube (21) between the master preform (22) and the outer tube (20) has a lower viscosity at the fibre drawing temperature than said master preform (22) and said outer tube (20). A method for making a single-mode optical fibre is also provided. The fibre has a more centred and less deformed core than in the prior art. By way of example, an optical amplifier may thus be produced.
Abstract:
Heavy metal fluoride glass optical fiber with or without a cladding and coated with an outer layer of an oxide glass having a glass transition temperature of less than 300 DEG C and a thermal expansion coefficient of between 15 and 19 x 10 DEG C . Also, a method of making and providing such coatings on fluoride glass, and fiber optic products prepared by such methods.