摘要:
A method for making a high quality optical fiber preform, wherein the generation of foreign substance on the inner surface of a glass pipe can be suppressed at the process of carrying out thermal diffusion of an alkali metal element. The method comprises: (1) a thermal diffusion process for thermally defusing the alkali metal element into the inner side of a silica glass pipe by heating the glass pipe from the outside by a heat source while vapors of alkali metal salt generated by heating an alkali metal salt is supplied to the inside of the glass pipe from an end thereof; (2) a collapsing process for forming a core rod by collapsing the glass pipe after the thermal diffusion process; and (3) a process for adding a cladding part around the circumference of the core rod, wherein at the start of the thermal diffusion, the alkali metal salt is heated at a temperature for making the vapor pressure of the alkali metal salt to be 0.1 kPa or less, and thereafter the alkali metal salt is heated up to a temperature for making the vapor pressure of the alkali metal salt to be larger than 0.1 kPa.
摘要:
An optical fiber including: (i) a silica based, rare earth doped core (12) having a first index of refraction n1; (ii) a silica based inner cladding (14) surrounding the core and having a second index of refraction n2, such that n1>n2, the inner cladding having a plurality of air holes (24, 26) extending longitudinally through the length of the optical fiber; (iii) a silica based outer cladding (16) surrounding the inner cladding and having a third index of refraction n3, such that n2>n3; wherein the optical fiber supports a single polarization mode within the operating wavelength range.
摘要:
A method for manufacturing optical fiber preform comprising a core glass containing a light emitting substance (e.g. rare earth metal dopant) and a cladding glass, easily controlling an amount of the light emitting substance incorporated into the core glass without requiring any complicated step, includes the steps of forming a porous layer made of a precursor of the core glass on an inner surface of a hollow tube having an inner surface made of the cladding glass, spraying a medium containing the light emitting substance onto the porous layer, forming a layer of the core glass containing the light emitting substance by sintering the porous layer containing the light emitting substance, and forming a preform rod by collapsing the obtained hollow tube into a solid article. Alternatively, another method according to the invention includes the steps of spraying a medium containing a precursor of the core glass on the inner surface of the hollow tube, forming the core glass layer by sintering the formed precursor layer, and forming a preform rod by collapsing the obtained hollow tube into a solid article. A third method comprises spraying sequentially core-forming material and light emitting substance and a fourth method simultaneous spraying of both. An optical fiber can be formed by drawing the thus obtained optical fiber preforms.
摘要:
A method of producing an oxide glass thin film includes a process to obtain a transparent glass film, in which volatilization of additives in a porous film deposited is effectively suppressed and which can provide an oxide glass thin film having a desired arrangement of refractive index with a low optical loss. The method is for producing an oxide glass thin film, in which glass fine particles mainly containing SiO₂ with additives are deposited on a substrate to form a porous thin film and then heated to form a transparent glass film. In the method, vapor of oxides of additive components is mixed in an atmosphere in which the porous thin film is heated to form the transparent glass film, whereby stopping the volatilization of the additives in the porous film deposited, preventing diffusion of the additives added to a core layer, and preventing the volatilization of glass transition temperature lowering components of additives (P₂O₅, B₂O₃, GeO₂, etc.). By these, a desired arrangement of refractive index may be obtained, and an oxide glass thin film may be obtained while lowering the optical loss such as the optical scattering, which could be caused by bubbles in an unsintered portion.
摘要翻译:制造氧化物玻璃薄膜的方法包括获得透明玻璃膜的方法,其中沉积的多孔膜中的添加剂的挥发被有效地抑制,并且可以提供具有期望的折射率布置的氧化物玻璃薄膜 光损耗低。 该方法用于生产氧化物玻璃薄膜,其中主要含有SiO 2的玻璃微粒子与添加剂沉积在基底上以形成多孔薄膜,然后加热形成透明玻璃膜。 在该方法中,将添加成分的氧化物蒸气在加热多孔薄膜的气氛中混合,形成透明玻璃膜,由此停止多孔膜中的添加剂的挥发,防止添加添加剂的扩散 核心层,并且防止添加剂(P 2 O 5,B 2 O 3,GeO 2等)的玻璃化转变温度降低成分的挥发。 通过这些,可以获得期望的折射率布置,并且可以在降低可能由未烧结部分中的气泡引起的光学散射等光损耗的同时获得氧化物玻璃薄膜。
摘要:
Provided is a process for preparing a homogenous fluoride glass containing high purity BaF₂ through the CVD process characterized in that the used gaseous mixture comprising: a barium β-diketonate complex serving as a first starting material and represented by the following general formula (1) of: wherein R is an alkyl group having 1 to 7 carbon atoms, R′ is a substituted alkyl group having fluorine atoms substituting hydrogen atoms and represented by C n F 2n+1 where n is an integer of from 1 to 3; and a gaseous or vaporizable compound of the matallic element constituting said fluoride glass, the gaseous or vaporizable compound serving as a second starting material; and a fluorine-containing gas serving as fluorinating agent. Further provided is a process for preparing a preform for a fluoride optical fiber which is low in trasmission loss, by depositing the fluoride glass over the interior wall of a cylindrical tube or the wall of rod-like glass substrate through the CVD process followed by collapsing.
摘要:
Procédé permettant d'incorporer un dopant métallique dans le noyau de silice dopé d'une ébauche de fibres optiques, le composé précurseur du dopant étant un chélate métallique possédant une pression de vapeur suffisamment élevée, ce chélate pouvant être volatilisé à des températures relativement faibles (par exemple, entre 100o et 250oC), et pouvant être aisément incorporé dans les courants gazeux du composé précurseur de noyau utilisé normalement pour le dépôt du noyau dopé, ce chélate métallique étant dérivé d'un ligant de beta-dicetone fluoré de formule le générale (I), où R, R1 et R2 sont des groupes alkyle perfluorés composés de 1 à 7 atomes de carbone ou des groupes aryle perfluorés.
摘要:
The previous methods of controlling the flow of vapor transported by a carrier gas from a bubbler (10) to a using system have customarily been the thermal-conductivity mass flow meter and the temperature controlled vaporizer bubbler (10). However, such control methods have the disadvantage that fluctuations occur in the vapor mass flow. In accordance with the present invention the flow of vapor transported by a carrier gas from a bubbler (10) to a using system is controlled to provide on uninterrupted uniform mass flow ofthevaporto the using system. Control of the flow of vapor is achieved by controlling the temperature (48) and pressure (50) within the bubbler (10).