Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a clamp that causes no positional deviation of an optical fiber in the process of forming a fiber grating by irradiating the optical fiber with a ultraviolet laser beam through a phase mask. SOLUTION: In a conventional clamp, an optical fiber is firmly fixed. In this invention, for the purpose of providing the optical fiber with the degree of freedom, it is held through an elastic body comprising a spring and brought into a floating state, making the spring absorb positional deviation due to thermal expansion/contraction of the optical fiber or due to vibration from the outside, so that the position of the fiber grating is always automatically corrected. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain an optical waveguide Bragg grating having different reflection wavelengths with high accuracy and high reproducibility by fixing the optical waveguide at a certain position without adjusting the position at respective times, when the optical waveguide Bragg grating having different reflection wavelengths is obtained by symmetrically turning two mirrors, in a two-luminous flux interferometric method by which a radiated ultraviolet beam is divided into two beams by using a phase mask, the beams are reflected on two mirrors, respectively, and made interfered by crossing the two beams at the position of the optical waveguide in the method and the apparatus for manufacturing the optical waveguide Bragg grating. SOLUTION: The turning axes of the two mirrors are arranged in the vicinity of the position of an optical waveguide by largely dislocated from the central parts of the mirrors thus the position at which the two beams cross and interfere with each other is kept constant when the two mirrors are symmetrically turned. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a structure of a fiber grating with temperature compensation in which the wavelength fluctuation of the fiber grating caused by change in temperature is suppressed with high accuracy. SOLUTION: A compressive external force imparting structure formed by a combination of materials having a different thermal expansion coefficient is provided in multistages and combined. Compressive external force of a different amount in a different temperature range is applied to a fiber grating, thereby suppressing the wavelength fluctuation of the fiber grating due to change in temperature. To be concrete, a second stage structure is installed in the rear of the compressive external force imparting structure of the first stage that fixes the fiber grating, and the compressive external force is applied by the first stage structure to the fiber grating in a low temperature range while the compressive external force is applied by the second stage structure to the fiber grating through the adjacent first stage structure in a high temperature range by utilizing the elasticity of adhesive resin for fixing the thermal expansion material in the first stage structure. Thus, different temperature compensations are performed in different temperature ranges, thereby suppressing the wavelength fluctuation over the entire desired temperature range. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method to form a fiber Bragg grating by continuously sublimating, burning and removing and irradiating coated resin with an ultraviolet laser beam without adopting an independent step for removing the coat, which is conventionally adopted in a step for manufacturing the fiber Bragg grating by an irradiation with the ultraviolet laser beam. SOLUTION: When the fiber Bragg grating is manufactured without removing the coated resin by a phase mask method, an optical fiber is arranged close to or in contact with the phase mask and the coating resin is sublimated, burned and scattered, and the mask is contaminated, thus the phase mask can not be reused. In a two luminous flux interference method, the optical fiber is arranged at a position remote from the phase mask and a reflection mirror, these items are not damaged. The fiber Bragg grating is formed by further continuous irradiation with the laser ultraviolet laser beam even after sublimating and burning the coated resin, thus the step for removing the coated resin is dispensed of in the manufacturing step of the fiber Bragg grating. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for manufacturing a fiber grating by irradiation with UV laser light while imparting apodization to the fiber grating. SOLUTION: The method is carried out by use of a two-beam interference device that symmetrically splits UV laser light into two beams using a phase mask, reflects the beams by mirrors symmetrically disposed, and allows the beams to intersect and interference at the position of an optical fiber. First, a first fiber grating is formed, and consecutively the two mirrors are symmetrically rotated at a minute angle to form a second fiber grating as superposing on the first grating, wherein the fiber grating is formed by controlling the mirror rotation angle in such a manner that the phase in the longitudinal direction of the refractive index modulation by the two fiber gratins is identical at the center of the fiber grating and is shifted by 180° shift at the ends. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method with which a Gaussian type distribution apodization is surely given with high accuracy by a two-luminous flux interferometric method for manufacturing the optical waveguide Bragg grating and to provide an apparatus of manufacturing an optical waveguide Bragg grating. SOLUTION: In a configuration in which an ultraviolet laser light beam 5 is divided into two beams, the beams are reflected on two mirrors 2 and made interfered by superposing at the position of an optical waveguide 4, the two beams are strongly interfered at the central part of the optical waveguide Bragg grating by superposing by crossing diffraction grating images at the position of the optical waveguide by symmetrically turning the two mirrors by α from an angle at which two mirrors are in parallel to each other, and the two beams weakly or not at all interfere at end parts, thus the apodization is given to the optical waveguide Bragg grating. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI