Abstract:
The present disclosure is directed to a method of making an optical fiber with improved bend performance, the optical fiber having a core and at least one cladding layer, and a chlorine content in the in the last layer of the at least one cladding layer that is greater than 500 ppm by weight. The fiber is prepared using a mixture of a carrier gas, a gaseous chlorine source material and a gaseous reducing agent during the sintering of the last or outermost layer of the at least one cladding layer. The inclusion of the reducing gas into a mixture of the carrier gas and gaseous chlorine material reduces oxygen-rich defects that results in at least a 20% reduction in TTP during hydrogen aging testing.
Abstract:
A method for carrying out a plasma deposition process including the steps of providing a substrate tube, supplying dopant-containing glass-forming gases to the substrate including a main gas flow and one or more secondary gas flows, inducing a plasma in the substrate tube, moving a reaction zone back and forth in strokes between a reversal point near the supply side and a reversal point near the discharge side, and interrupting the secondary gas flow during a portion of each stroke, each interruption having a start point and an end point within the same stroke.
Abstract:
Provided is a method of producing a preform 10P for a coupled multi-core fiber including: an arranging process P1 for arranging a plurality of core glass bodies 11R and a clad glass body 12R in such a way that the plurality of core glass bodies 11R are surrounded by the clad glass body 12R; and a collapsing process P2 for collapsing a gap between the core glass bodies 11R and the clad glass body 12R, wherein the respective core glass bodies 11R have outer regions 16 having a predetermined thickness from the periphery surfaces and made of silica glass undoped with germanium, and the clad glass body 12R is made of silica glass having a refractive index lower than a refractive index of the outer regions of the core glass bodies 11R.
Abstract:
One embodiment of the disclosure relates to a method of making an optical fiber comprising the steps of: (i) exposing a silica based preform with at least one porous glass region having soot density of ρ to a gas mixture comprising SiCl4 having SiCl4 mole fraction ySiCl4 at a doping temperature Tdop such that parameter X is larger than 0.03 to form the chlorine treated preform, wherein X = 1 1 + [ ( ρ ρ s - ρ ) 0.209748 T dop Exp [ - 5435.33 / T dop ] y SiCl 4 3 / 4 ] and ρs is the density of the fully densified soot layer; and (ii) exposing the chlorine treated preform to temperatures above 1400° C. to completely sinter the preform to produce sintered optical fiber preform with a chlorine doped region; and (iii) drawing an optical fiber from the sintered optical preform.
Abstract:
In one aspect of the invention, the bend insensitive single-mode optical fiber includes a core layer and cladding layers having an inner cladding layer, a trench cladding layer and an outer cladding layer sequentially formed surrounding the core layer from inside to outside. For the core layer, the diameter is 7-7.9 μm, and the relative refractive index difference Δ1 is between 4.6×10−3 and 6.0×10−3. For the inner cladding layer, the diameter is 15-17 μm, and a relative refractive index difference Δ2 is between −3×10−4 and 3×10−4. For the trench cladding layer, the diameter is 24-33 μm, and the relative refractive index difference Δ3 is between −2.9×10−3 and −7.3×10−3, changes in a gradient manner and increases gradually from outside to inside, where a relative refractive index difference Δ32 at an outermost interface is smaller than a relative refractive index difference Δ31 at an innermost interface.
Abstract:
Methods for making active laser fibers include the production of an optical fiber with disturbed (or deviated) cylindrical symmetry on the glass surface of the fiber. The methods include a preform containing a central core made of glass. In one embodiment, the preform is circular and surrounded by additional glass rods and an outer glass jacket tube. In a first alternative embodiment, this preform is merged during fiber drawing. In a second alternative embodiment, the preform merged in a process forming a compact glass body with disturbed cylindrical symmetry. This compact preform is drawn into a fiber under conditions maintaining the disturbed cylindrical symmetry.
Abstract:
An optical fiber silica glass base material comprising a core formed of silica glass doped with a positive dopant that increases a refractive index; an intermediate layer adjacent to the core and surrounding the core on a radial outside thereof; a trench layer adjacent to the intermediate layer, surrounding the intermediate layer on a radial outside thereof, and formed of silica glass doped with a negative dopant that decreases a refractive index; and a cladding layer adjacent to the trench layer, surrounding the trench layer on a radial outside thereof, and formed of silica glass. Thickness of the intermediate layer in a radial direction is greater than thickness of the trench layer, and a region of the intermediate layer nearer the core is more heavily doped with the positive dopant and/or a region of the intermediate layer nearer the trench layer is more heavily doped with the negative dopant.
Abstract:
Disclosed is an optical fiber having a core with an alkali metal oxide dopant in an peak amount greater than about 0.002 wt. % and less than about 0.1 wt. %. The alkali metal oxide concentration varies with a radius of the optical fiber. By appropriately selecting the concentration of alkali metal oxide dopant in the core and the cladding, a low loss optical fiber may be obtained. Also disclosed are several methods of making the optical fiber including the steps of forming an alkali metal oxide-doped rod, and adding additional glass to form a draw perform. Preferably, the draw preform has a final outer dimension (d2), wherein an outer dimension (d1) of the rod is less than or equal to 0.06 times the final outer dimension (d2). In a preferred embodiment, the alkali metal oxide-doped rod is inserted into the centerline hole of a preform to form an assembly.
Abstract:
An inexpensive low-attenuation optical fiber 1 suitable for use as an optical transmission line in an optical access network is a silica based glass optical fiber and includes a core 11 including the center axis, an optical cladding 12 surrounding the core, and a jacket 13 surrounding the optical cladding. The core contains GeO2 and has a relative refractive index difference Δcore, based on the optical cladding, greater than or equal to 0.35% and less than or equal to 0.50% and has a refractive index volume v greater than or equal to 0.045 μm2 and less than or equal to 0.095 μm2. The jacket has a relative refractive index difference ΔJ greater than or equal to 0.03% and less than or equal to 0.20%. Glass constituting the core has a fictive temperature higher than or equal to 1400° C. and lower than or equal to 1590° C. Residual stress in the core is compressive stress that has an absolute value greater than or equal to 5 MPa.
Abstract:
A large mode field active optical fiber and manufacture method thereof is provided. The large mode field active optical fiber is formed by drawing a fiber core (1), a quartz glass internal cladding (2), a quartz glass outer cladding (3), and a coating (4). The quartz glass internal cladding (2), the quartz glass outer cladding (3), and the coating (4) are sequentially coated on the outer surface of the fiber core (1). The fiber core (1) is formed by depositing, melting, and shrinking the tetrachlorosilane doped with rare earth ions in a quartz glass tube. The refractive index of the fiber core (1) is a graded refractive index, and the section parameter a thereof is 1≦α≦3. The appearance of the quartz glass inner cladding (2) is regular multi-prism shaped. The large mode field active optical fiber provides an approximate single mode output, increases the capacity of bearing the laser power for the active optical fiber, increases the quality of the light beam of the output laser, avoids the problem that there is a hollow ring in the output laser, increases the reliability of the high power fiber laser, increases the utilization efficiency of the raw materials, and reduces the manufacture cost.