摘要:
The present invention to a coating dispersion comprising: a polyorganosilsesquioxane; and a silicon oxide powder dispersed in said polyorganosilsesquioxane, said oxide powder having a refractive index of from about 1.2 to about 2.7 and including a plurality of particles having a particle size less about 100 nanometers, wherein plurality of particles is present in said coating dispersion in an amount of from about 10 wt.% to about 80 wt.%; said coating dispersion providing a coating having transparency to ultraviolet radiation.
摘要:
A glass article comprising a glass substrate and a diamond-like film deposited on the substrate is disclosed. The glass article is desirably responsive to actinic radiation, such as being capable of demonstrating a change in refractive index upon exposure to actinic radiation. The film permits passage of the actinic radiation through the film and into the substrate. In specific implementations, the film comprises at least about 30 atomic percent carbon, from about 0 to about 50 atomic percent silicon, and from about 0 to about 50 atomic percent oxygen on a hydrogen-free basis.
摘要:
The invention relates to Bragg fibre grating implemented in the form of a portion of the fibre light guide based on SiO2 having at least one impurity dope, inclusive of GeO2, the refraction index of the light guide core having been modulated along its length, whereby the content of GeO2 is within the range from 11 to 39 mole %.
摘要:
A grating (12) is induced in the core (14) of a hydrogen-loaded high-germanium-content optical fiber (10) using near-UV (275 nm-390 nm) laser light (40). An interference pattern is generated at the core (14) using a molded polymer phase mask (30) with a square wave surface relief pattern (34). The light (40) is directed through the phase mask (30), through a protective fiber coating (18), through the cladding (16), and into the core (14). The phase mask (30) generates an interference pattern with a period half that of the surface relief pattern (34). Index of refraction changes occur at the bright fringes of the interference pattern, thus creating the grating. Advantages over existing mid-UV technology include lower fabrication costs for phase masks, simplified grating induction since fiber coatings do not need to be removed, and reduced infrared absorption caused by grating formation in the fiber.
摘要:
The specification describes optical fiber coating materials and methods for making optical fiber gratings wherein the material of the optical fiber coatings comprises vinyl ether functionalized monomers, together with oligomeric or polymeric thickeners and a cationic photoinitiator. These coating materials are highly transparent to UV radiation used to write optical gratings in the optical fibers but still absorb sufficiently at other wavelengths to be cured effectively using UV radiation.
摘要:
The method of making an optical fiber refractive index grating comprises writing the grating through the fiber coating. The method involves providing optical fiber of significantly higher photosensitivity than conventional fiber, such that the grating can be written before unacceptable darkening of the coating occurs. Such fiber is H 2 and/or D 2 -loaded silica-based fiber having a Ge-doped core, the fiber selected to have a germanium-oxygen deficiency center content that provides the fiber with a photosensitivity that is at least twice as large as that of an otherwise identical, conventionally prepared, optical fiber. The fiber typically is drawn from a preform, at least a portion of which was exposed to a reducing atmosphere at an elevated temperature.
摘要:
There is provided an alignment system and method for use in an ultrashort pulse duration laser-based Fiber Bragg Grating (FBG) writing system, the alignment system comprising: clamps configured to hold a coated optical fiber in a position perpendicular to a beam path of an ultrashort pulse duration laser-based FBG writing station; an optical detector; and a control system with an input from the optical detector and an output to adjust parameters of an optical source and the FBG writing station adjust a distance between the optical fiber and an optical source of the writing station based on luminescence generated in a core of the optical fiber as indicated in a signal received at the input from the optical detector.