Abstract:
A B₂O₃-doped tubular porous silica preform is heated, and a fluorine-containing gas, such as SiF₄ or CF₄, is flowed into its aperture. The temperature is sufficiently high to cause the fluorine-containing gas to decompose and form fluorine which dopes the preform. Also flowed into the aperture is a sufficient amount of BF₃ to prevent fluorine from reacting with the B₂O₃ in the porous preform and thereby inhibit formation of a B₂O₃-depleted region near the aperture surface. The doped porous preform is then consolidated to fuse the particles and form a dense glass tube containing both boron and fluorine as dopants with substantially uniform radial composition profiles (see fig.5). Optical fibres can be placed in the dense glass tube which is then collapsed to form a fibre optic coupler.
Abstract translation:公开了一种形成掺杂有硼和氟的玻璃管的方法。 加热B2O3掺杂的管状多孔预制件,并且含氟气体流入其孔。 温度足够高,导致含氟气体分解并形成掺杂预成型体的氟。 也流入孔中的是足够量的BF 3,以防止氟与多孔预型体中的B 2 O 3反应并在孔表面附近形成B 2 O 3贫化区。 然后将颗粒熔合以形成含氟致密玻璃管。
Abstract:
Incorporation of fluorine into a porous silica body, such as an unsintered body produced by a sol-gel method, by VAD or OVPO, reduces or eliminates bubble or pore formation upon re-heating of the glass formed by sintering of the porous material. Effective fluorine concentrations are between 0.01 and 5% by weight. The invention can be used advantageously in producing preforms and optical fiber.
Abstract:
L'incorporation de fluor dans un corps de silice poreuse, par exemple un corps non fritté produit selon un procédé sol-gel, par déposition axiale verticale ou oxydation de phase de vapeur extérieure, réduit ou élimine la formation de bulles ou de pores après réchauffage du verre formé par frittage du matériau poreux. Des concentrations de fluor situées entre 0,01 et 5% en poids sont efficaces. La présente invention peut être utilisée avantageusement pour produire des préformes et des fibres optiques.
Abstract:
An optical amplifier for amplifying an optical signal having a signal wavelength λ s , comprises an optical fibre (20) having an erbium doped core (34) surrounded by cladding (42, 32, 30), a pump (22) for pumping the fibre with pump light at a pump wavelength λ p coupled to the fibre, said erbium doped optical fibre having a NA higher than 0.2, the difference in the coefficient of thermal expansion of the core adjacent the core/cladding interface and the coefficient of thermal expansion of the cladding at at least one radius less than 2µm from said interface being lower than a predetermined value, corresponding to a ratio of erbium loss to background loss, at said pump wavelength, greater than a minimum ratio calculated by a given increasing function of the ratio erbium loss/background loss versus erbium loss, in which said minimum ratio is about 20 when erbium loss is 0.15 dB/m and about 120 when erbium loss is 3.5 dB/m.
Abstract:
An image fiber preform for use in an image fiber according to the present invention includes a plurality of optical fiber strands, each optical fiber strand including a silica glass core which contains a dopant for increasing a refractive index of the core and a silica glass cladding surrounding the silica glass core, the silica glass cladding containing a fluorine dopant for decreasing a refractive index of the cladding, the cladding having an outer peripheral surface, and a quartz tube in which the optical fibers are closely arranged, wherein the cladding has a concentration of the fluorine dopant which decreases radially outward toward the outer peripheral surface of the cladding. In the present invention, an image fiber prepared from the image fiber preform and fabrication processes for the image fiber preform and the image fiber are provided.
Abstract:
An image fiber preform for use in an image fiber according to the present invention includes a plurality of optical fiber strands, each optical fiber strand including a silica glass core which contains a dopant for increasing a refractive index of the core and a silica glass cladding surrounding the silica glass core, the silica glass cladding containing a fluorine dopant for decreasing a refractive index of the cladding, the cladding having an outer peripheral surface, and a quartz tube in which the optical fibers are closely arranged, wherein the cladding has a concentration of the fluorine dopant which decreases radially outward toward the outer peripheral surface of the cladding. In the present invention, an image fiber prepared from the image fiber preform and fabrication processes for the image fiber preform and the image fiber are provided.
Abstract:
Glass preforms for optical fibers or the like having refractive index profiles which vary in stepped or graded fashion across the preform, are made from porous glass preforms by introducing a first dopant into the porous preform during manufacture, partially sintering the preform to selectively modify the internal surface area thereof, introducing a second vapor-infusible dopant into the selectively sintered preform to cause selective doping of the porous glass, and then consolidating the resulting doped preform to clear glass.