摘要:
Dual coated optical fibers and methods for forming dual coated optical fibers are disclosed herein. The dual coated optical fibers include a glass fiber comprising a core region, a cladding region and a dual coating layer surrounding the glass fiber. The dual coating layer includes an inner coating and an outer coating. The inner coating surrounds the glass fiber and includes a first polyimide material. In one embodiment the first polyimide material also includes an adhesion promoter. The outer coating surrounds and is in direct contact with the inner coating and includes a second polyimide material having a decomposition threshold temperature greater than the first polyimide material. The second polyimide material may also have a modulus of elasticity greater than the first polyimide material and a moisture uptake lower than the first polyimide material.
摘要:
Generation of a cylindrically polarized light beam, and in particular, a hybrid-azimuthal-radial polarization beams, called HARP modes, generated from an input linearly polarized Gaussian beam using a spun optical waveguide device is taught. The HARP modes are comprised of hybrid-azimuthal polarization (HAP) and hybrid-radial polarization (HRP) superposition modes. These beams possess a non-zero local angular momentum density that is spatially varying and a zero total angular momentum.
摘要:
According to one example of the invention an optical fiber comprises: (i) a core (12) consisting of Al doped silica having a first index of refraction n1; (ii) at least one silica based cladding (14) surrounding the core and having a second index of refraction n2, such that n1>n2; (iii) a hermetic carbon based coating (16) surrounding said cladding, said hermetic coating being 300nm -1000 nm thick; and (iv) a second coating (18) surrounding said hermetic coating, said second coating being 5 μm to 80 μm thick.
摘要:
An optical fiber including: (i) a silica based, rare earth doped core having a first index of refraction n1; and (ii) at least one silica based cladding surrounding the core and having a second index of refraction n2, such that nl>n2, said cladding having a plurality of stress rods (13, 15) and a plurality of air holes (24, 26) extending longitudinally through the length of said optical fiber; wherein said optical fiber supports a single polarization mode or poses polarization maintaining properties within the operating wavelength range.
摘要:
A double-clad optical fiber includes a core, an inner cladding and an outer cladding of silica-based glass. The core may have a radius of less than about 5μmn, a first index of refraction n1 and does not contain any active rare-earth dopants. The inner cladding may surround the core and includes a radial thickness of at least about 25 μm, a numerical aperture of at least about 0.25, and a second index of refraction n 2 such that n 2 1 . The relative refractive index percent (Δ%) of the core relative to the inner cladding may be greater than about 0.1%. The outer cladding may surround the inner cladding and include a radial thickness from about 10 μm to about 50 μm and a third index of refraction n 3 such that n 3 2 . The relative refractive index percent (%) of the inner cladding relative to the outer cladding may be greater than about 1.5%.
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 detection system (5) comprising: (i) an optical fiber, the optical fiber (12) having (a) a length L ≥l km; (b) beat length between 10 m and 100 m; and (c) beat length uniformity over any distance of at least 100 m within the length L is characterized by standard deviation σ, where σ ≤ 10 m; (ii) an OTDR (10) coupled to the fiber and including (a) a radiation source providing pulsed radiation to the fiber, (b) a detection system capable of detecting radiation that is backscattered back through the fiber; and (iii) at least one polarizer (18) situated between the fiber and the detector, such that the backscattered radiation passes through the polarizer before reaching the detector.