摘要:
An amplification optical fiber 10 according to the present invention includes: a core 11 doped with an active element, through which multi-mode light can propagate; inner cladding 12 surrounding the core 11 and having a refractive index lower than that of the core 11; and outer cladding 13 surrounding the inner cladding 12 and having a refractive index lower than that of the inner cladding 12, wherein the inner cladding 12 has a polygonal outline in a cross section perpendicular to the longitudinal direction, and the inner cladding 12 has a permanent twist applied by turning around the central axis of the core 11.
摘要:
An optical fiber preform has a core portion having a first core portion including a central axis, a second core portion disposed around the first core portion, and a third core portion disposed around the second core portion. The first core portion contains 10 atomic ppm or more of an alkali metal and 10 to 600 atomic ppm of chlorine, the second core portion contains 10 atomic ppm or less of the alkali metal and 10 to 600 atomic ppm of chlorine, and the third core portion contains 10 atomic ppm or less of the alkali metal and 2,000 atomic ppm or more of chlorine. An optical fiber has a core region doped with an alkali metal and chlorine, wherein the minimum concentration of chlorine in the core region is 1,000 atomic ppm or more, and the average concentration of the alkali metal therein is 0.2 atomic ppm or more.
摘要:
To be provided is an amplifying optical fiber allowing for efficient absorption of pumping light by an active element therein, and an optical fiber amplifier using the amplifying optical fiber. An amplifying optical fiber (20) includes a core (21) doped with an active element, a cladding (22) covering the core (21), and an outer cladding (23) covering the cladding (22). The cladding (22) meets a relationship of 0.92 ≤ r/R ≤ 0.97 where the cladding (22) has a polygonal outer shape in cross section, and the outer shape has an inscribed circle of a diameter r and a circumscribed circle of a diameter R.
摘要:
An optical fiber has a first mode field diameter in a dominant mode of an acoustic mode generated in the optical fiber different from a second mode field diameter in a light intensity distribution of the optical fiber to increase the SBS threshold by reducing the overlap between the two modes. Furthermore, a transmission system is configured to perform an analog signal transmission, a baseband transmission, or an optical SCM transmission by use of the optical fiber.
摘要:
A transverse closed-loop fiber resonator (10) includes an inner cladding (102) having a surface (300) peripherally forming a closed-loop shape for confining light to the surface (300). The inner cladding has a first diameter thickness (104) and a first index of refraction profile in a cross-sectional portion of the transverse closed-loop fiber resonator (10). A ringed-core (120) corresponding to the closed-loop shape is disposed on the corresponding surface of the inner cladding (102). The ringed-core (120) has a second thickness (124) of material thinner than the first diameter thickness (104), and a second index of refraction profile greater than the first index of the inner cladding by an index delta in the cross-sectional portion of the transverse closed-loop fiber resonator such that the ringed-core can guide light within the ringed-core traversely around the closed-loop shape.
摘要:
An apparatus (60) and method for thermally tuning an optical amplifier comprises an optical waveguide (63) doped with a fluorescent material, a thermal device (65) for either heating or cooling the optical waveguide, and a pump light (61) for exciting the fluorescent material. The apparatus shapes, shifts, and/or flattens the gain curves of the doped optical amplifier. Thulium doped fiber is cooled to shift the gain curve into the C-band. Erbium doped fiber is heated to flatten the gain curve in the C-band and is cooled to shift the gain curve above the L-band. The apparatus similarly shapes the gain curves of other fluorescent materials. The thermal device comprises three types of optical cooling devices. The apparatus is a component in communications systems, lasers, medical lasers and the like. The method comprises either heating or cooling optical waveguides doped with fluorescent materials to achieve the desired shaping, shifting, and flattening of the gain curves.
摘要:
An optical transmission fiber for use in a metropolitan or access network is disclosed. The transmission line includes a fiber being single mode at a first operating wavelength of around 1310 nm and a second operating wavelength of around 1550 nm. The dispersion of the fiber is negative at one of the first and second operating wavelengths and positive at the other of the first and second operating wavelengths, with an absolute value of between about 5 ps/nm/km and 15 ps/nm/km. The fiber also has a zero dispersion wavelength that is located between the first and second operating wavelengths, and an effective area at a wavelength around 1550 nm greater than about 60 νm2. The cabled fiber has a cutoff wavelength less than about 1300 nm. The fiber allows wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) operation in both the bands (1310 nm and 1550 nm) by reducing nonlinear effects such as four-wave mixing (FWM).
摘要:
Purpose : An optical waveguide fiber which is made substantially bend resistant. Constitution : A core having a central region with a higher index of refraction than an integral surrounding region is joined for a segment of its periphery to a clad member, so as to leave a gap between core and cladding. Bend resistance improvement begins when a relatively small fraction, for example, about half, of the core member periphery is detached. A detachment percentage between about 50% and 99.9% of the core member periphery should be achieved, with the preferred range between about 95% and 99.9%. Waveguides include single mode, multimode and polarization maintaining waveguides. Additional core isolation from external forces is provided by an additional semi-detached cladding layer. Only a segment of the periphery of core member (6) is fused to clad (8) along the length of waveguide (5). Also, only a segment of the periphery of clad (8) is fused to clad (10) along the length of waveguide (5). The gaps (7) and (9), which are present along the length of waveguide (5), serve to provide a double isolation of core member (6) from external forces. That is, the stress fields set up in clad layer (10) are only partially transmitted to clad (8), because of the limited contact between the two clads. Likewise, stress fields experienced by clad (8) cannot be fully transmitted to core member (6) due to the limited area of contact between these two waveguide parts. The area of attachment between core member (6) and clad (8) may occur at any part of the inside surface of clad (8). Also, the orientation of the area of attachment between clad (8) and clad (10) may occur at any part of the inside surface of clad (10). In general, the area of attachment of clad (8) to clad (10) and the area of attachment of core member (6) and clad (8) do not influence one another.