Abstract:
High index-contrast fiber waveguides, materials for forming high index-contrast fiber waveguides, and applications of high index-contrast fiber waveguides are disclosed.
Abstract:
A system and a method in producing a doped glass material, particularly a glass material to be used in light amplifying optical waveguides. The method comprising: bringing at least a first dopant and a second dopant of the glass material into a vaporous gas phase; controlling the vapour pressure of the gas phase of each dopant by bringing each dopant to a desired temperature which is simultaneously used to control the composition of their gas phase; and mixing each vaporous dopant with the gas flow of the basic material for the glass material, which basic material is also in a gas phase and is used as a carrier gas for the dopants, wherein said basic material and said dopants together constitute the required gas flow of so-called reactants, to be used for producing the glass material; performing the mixing so that said dopants are each mixed in turn with the same gas flow of the basic material in such an order that said desired temperatures of the dopants are increasing in relation to one another.
Abstract:
Disclosure is a low loss optical fiber comprising: a core including an inner core portion, which includes pure silica and is positioned at a center of the low loss optical fiber, and an outer core portion which surrounds the inner core portion and includes silica doped with a refractive index controlling material and a clad for surrounding the core.
Abstract:
The present invention provides a method of fabricating rare earth doped preforms and optical fibers by a combination of modified chemical vapor deposition (MCVD) process and solution doping technique said MCVD process is used to develop matched or depressed clad structure inside a silica glass substrate tube followed by deposition of porous silica soot layer containing GeO2, P2O5 or such refractive index modifiers by the backward deposition method for formation of the core and presintering the deposited particulate layer by backward pass with flow of GeCl4 and/or corresponding dopant halides, soaking the porous soot layer into an alcoholic/aqueous solution of RE-salts containing codopants such as AlCl3 in definite proportion, drying, oxidation, dehydration and sintering of the RE containing porous deposit and by collapsing at a high temperature to produce the preform followed by drawing the fibers by known technique to produce fibers with suitable core-clad dimensions and geometry.
Abstract:
An optical fiber preform having a low core noncircularity and eccentricity for producing an optical fiber having an improved polarization mode dispersion, a method for producing the preform, and an optical fiber produced from the preform. The optical fiber preform is produced by the following steps. Diameter-reduced portions 11a and 11b are formed in the vicinity of the ends of the glass pipe 11. A glass rod 12 is inserted into the glass pipe 11. The glass rod 12 is fixed to the glass pipe 11 at the diameter-reduced portion 11a. The glass pipe 11 and the glass rod 12 are heat-unified from the diameter-reduced portion 11b forward to the diameter-reduced portion 11a. The optical fiber preform has a core noncircularity of at most 1.5%. The optical fiber has a polarization mode dispersion of at most 0.15 ps/km1/2 at a wavelength of 1,550 nm.
Abstract:
A method for fabricating a GRIN fiber includes forming a tube of silica-glass having a tubular core and a concentric tubular cladding adjacent and external to the tubular core. The core has a dopant density with a radially graded profile. The method includes partially collapsing the tube by applying heat thereto. The partially collapsed tube has a central channel. The method includes passing a glass etchant through the central canal to remove an internal layer of silica glass, and then, collapsing the etched tube to a rod-like preform.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a dispersion flattened fiber (DFF) with high negative dispersion and a manufacturing method thereof. The dispersion flattened fiber comprises a central core; ring-type cores and low refractive regions alternately formed outside the central core; a cladding surrounding outside the ring-type cores and low refractive regions; and a coating outside the cladding. Since the dispersion flattened fiber has the dispersion of −20 to −60, it has a wide range of application and can be used for various purposes in the field of optical telecommunication.
Abstract:
A dispersion control fiber and a method of manufacturing a large size preform are provided. In one embodiment, the dispersion control fiber comprises a core composed of SiO2, GeO2, P2O5 and Freon, and a cladding composed of SiO2, GeO2, P2O5, and Freon. The P2O5 content is selected not to exceed 10% of the total weight of a compound composing the core. An embodiment of the method of manufacturing a large size preform for a dispersion control fiber by an MCVD process comprises depositing SiO2, GeO2, P2O5, and Freon in an inner periphery of a deposition tube to form a cladding layer, and depositing SiO2, GeO2, P2O5 and Freon on an inner periphery of the cladding layer to form a core layer.
Abstract translation:提供了一种分散控制纤维及其制造方法。 在一个实施方案中,色散控制光纤包括由SiO 2,GeO 2,P 2 O 5和氟利昂组成的芯和由SiO 2,GeO 2,P 2 O 5和氟利昂组成的包层。 选择P2O5含量不超过构成核心的化合物总重量的10%。 通过MCVD工艺制造用于分散控制纤维的大尺寸预制件的方法的一个实施方案包括在沉积管的内周中沉积SiO 2,GeO 2,P 2 O 5和氟利昂以形成包覆层,并且沉积SiO 2,GeO 2, P2O5和氟利昂在包覆层的内周上形成核心层。
Abstract:
The present invention relates to a light-amplifying optical fiber comprising a structure for realizing a flat gain characteristic or oscillation characteristic in a wider wavelength band, and a method of making the same. The light-amplifying optical fiber according to the present invention comprises a second doped area containing a first doped area including an optical axis center and having a larger outer diameter than the first doped area. The second doped area is doped with at least one of Al2O3, P2O5, Y2O3, and B2O3 as an oxide of an element having a valence different from that of a cation constituting a main material of the light-amplifying optical fiber; whereas the first doped area is doped with at least one of Er, Nd, Tm, Yb, and Pr as a rare-earth element together with the oxide.
Abstract translation:本发明涉及一种包括用于实现更宽波长带中的平坦增益特性或振荡特性的结构的光放大光纤及其制造方法。根据本发明的光放大光纤包括: 第二掺杂区域包含包含光轴中心并且具有比第一掺杂区域更大的外径的第一掺杂区域。 掺杂有Al 2 O 3,P 2 O 5,Y 2 O 3和B 2 O 3中的至少一种作为与构成光放大光纤的主要材料的阳离子的价态不同的元素的氧化物的第2掺杂区域; 而第一掺杂区域与氧化物一起掺杂有Er,Nd,Tm,Yb和Pr中的至少一种作为稀土元素。
Abstract:
A method for forming a doped optical fiber includes drawing the optical fiber from a doped glass supply at a draw speed and a draw tension sufficient to introduce a heat aging defect in the optical fiber. The optical fiber is treated by maintaining the optical fiber within a treatment temperature range for a treatment time while preferably maintaining the optical fiber within a treatment tension range to reduce the tendency of the optical fiber to increase in attenuation over time following formation of the optical fiber. Apparatus are also provided.