Abstract:
An optical fiber having a cladding region surrounding a core region having an elongate core hole, the inner or outer surface of the core hole having a surface roughness with a spatial period equal to or less than 5 μm by a spectral power below 0.0017 nm2 μm−1. A method of making an optical fiber including a cladding region having an arrangement of elongate cladding holes in a matrix material, surrounding an elongate core region having an elongate core hole, the method including the step of increasing the surface tension of the matrix material prior to or during the step of heating and drawing the fiber.
Abstract:
An ideal quartz glass for a wafer jig for use in an environment having an etching effect is distinguished by both high purity and high resistance to dry etching. To indicate a quartz glass that substantially fulfills these requirements, it is suggested according to the invention that the quartz glass is doped with nitrogen at least in a near-surface area, has a mean content of metastable hydroxyl groups of less than 30 wt ppm and that its fictive temperature is below 1250° C. and its viscosity is at least 1013 dPa·s at a temperature of 1200° C. An economic method for producing such a quartz glass comprises the following method steps: melting an SiO2 raw material to obtain a quartz glass blank, the SiO2 raw material or the quartz glass blank being subjected to a dehydration measure, heating the SiO2 raw material or the quartz glass blank to a nitriding temperature in the range between 1050° C. and 1850° C. in an ammonia-containing atmosphere, a temperature treatment by means of which the quartz glass of the quartz glass blank is set to a fictive temperature of 1250° C. or less, and a surface treatment of the quartz glass blank with formation of the quartz glass jig.
Abstract:
A silicate optical fiber comprises a graded index silicate core co-doped with aluminum oxide, phosphorus oxide, germanium oxide and fluorine in unique compositions that we have discovered allow multimode, multi-wavelength operation without significant intermodal dispersion. Illustratively, the core comprises a multiplicity of compositions whose refractive indices are graded from a maximum at or near the center of the core to a minimum at the interface with the cladding. Each core composition resides within a sub-volume of a 5 dimensional phase space in which an optimum core profile shape is essentially constant over the wavelength range of operation of the fiber. For operation in the wavelength range of about 0.78 μm to 1.55 μm, each composition preferably comprises no more than approximately 6 mole % Al2O3, 9 mole % P2O5, 6 mole % GeO2, 6 mole % F, and 90-100 mole % SiO2.
Abstract translation:硅酸盐光纤包括与氧化铝,氧化磷,氧化锗和氟共掺杂的分级指数硅酸盐芯,其独特的组成,我们发现允许多模多波长操作,而没有显着的联合分散。 说明性地,芯包括多个组合物,其折射率从芯的中心处或附近的最大值到与包层的界面处最小。 每个核心组合物位于5维相位空间的子体积中,其中最佳核心轮廓形状在光纤的操作的波长范围上基本上是恒定的。 为了在约0.78μm至1.55μm的波长范围内操作,每个组合物优选包含不超过约6摩尔%的Al 2 O 3 N 3,9摩尔%P
Abstract:
In general, in one aspect, the disclosure features a fiber waveguide having a waveguide axis, including a core extending along the waveguide axis and a confinement region extending along the waveguide axis surrounding the core. The confinement region includes a periodic structure along a radial direction extending from the waveguide axis and each period in the periodic structure includes a layer of a chalcogenide glass and a layer of a polymer.
Abstract:
The present invention concerns a preform for an optical fiber, an optical fiber so obtained and methods for making the same. The fiber is characterized in that porous glass doped with at least one dopant is used. Resulting fibers can be used to make high attenuation fibers.
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:
The present invention relates to an optical fiber and a planar waveguide for achieving a uniform optical attenuation, which comprises a core co-doped with a first metal ions having an optical absorption coefficient of a negative slope in a particular wavelength band and a second metal ions having an optical absorption coefficient of a positive slope in a predetermined wavelength band.
Abstract:
A method for making extreme ultraviolet lithography tool glass substrates includes generating a plasma, delivering reactants comprising a silica precursor and a titania precursor into the plasma to produce titania and silica particles, and depositing the titania and silica particles on a deposition surface to form a homogeneous titania-doped silica. The invention provides for homogeneous glass substrates that are free of striae variations and provides for beneficial extreme ultraviolet lithography reflective optics.
Abstract:
High index-contrast fiber waveguides, materials for forming high index-contrast fiber waveguides, and applications of high index-contrast fiber waveguides are disclosed.