公开(公告)号：US20220276430A1

公开(公告)日：2022-09-01

申请号：US17627866

申请日：2020-07-21

Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION

Inventor： Taiji SAKAMOTO ,  Kazuhide NAKAJIMA ,  Takashi MATSUI ,  Kyozo TSUJIKAWA ,  Kunimasa SAITOH ,  Takeshi FUJISAWA

IPC: G02B6/02 ,  G02B27/00

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a multi-core optical fiber that can prevent an increase in bending loss even when a distance between a peripheral core and a cladding boundary is decreased, and can improve a bending loss characteristic in a state where an influence on a cutoff wavelength and a mode field diameter is small, and a design method thereof.
The multi-core optical fiber according to the present invention is an optical fiber in which two or more core regions are arranged in a cladding region having a refractive index lower than a refractive index of the core at a minimum core interval, a ring-shaped low refractive index region surrounding the core and having a refractive index lower than the refractive index of the cladding region is provided, a bending loss after the provision of the ring-shaped low refractive index region is reduced as compared with a characteristic in a case where the ring-shaped low refractive index region is not provided, and at the same time, a change in mode field diameter after the provision of the ring-shaped low refractive index region is not changed as compared with a characteristic in a case where the ring-shaped low refractive index region is not provided.

公开(公告)号：US20190386748A1

公开(公告)日：2019-12-19

申请号：US16312051

申请日：2017-07-04

Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION

Inventor： Takayoshi MORI ,  Taiji SAKAMOTO ,  Takashi YAMAMOTO ,  Kazuhide NAKAJIMA ,  Masaki WADA ,  Azusa URUSHIBARA

IPC: H04B10/2581 ,  G02B6/02 ,  H04B10/50 ,  H04B10/60

Abstract: The optical fiber according to the present disclosure is an optical fiber having a pure silica core which is a step index core through which an LPm1 mode with an effective area of 250 μm2 or more is propagated by setting a relative refractive index difference to 0.60% or less, considering an effective cutoff condition, and only 2 or more modes or the LPm1 mode are propagated, with the optical fiber as the transmission line.

公开(公告)号：US20250141174A1

公开(公告)日：2025-05-01

申请号：US18836969

申请日：2022-02-17

Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION

Inventor： Taiji SAKAMOTO ,  Ryota IMADA ,  Shinichi AOZASA ,  Kazuhide NAKAJIMA

IPC: H01S3/094 ,  H01S3/067

Abstract: The present disclosure is an optical fiber amplifier including: an amplification optical fiber doped with a rare earth element, in which a pump light combiner for injecting multimode pump light into a cladding region of the amplification optical fiber is connected to an input end or an output end of the amplification optical fiber, and a reflective device for reflecting the pump light and transmitting signal light is connected to an end part, of the amplification optical fiber, to which the pump light combiner is not connected.

公开(公告)号：US20250105578A1

公开(公告)日：2025-03-27

申请号：US18833531

申请日：2022-02-17

Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION

Inventor： Taiji SAKAMOTO ,  Ryota IMADA ,  Shinichi AOZASA ,  Kazuhide NAKAJIMA

IPC: H01S3/067 ,  H01S3/094

Abstract: An amplification optical fiber according to the present disclosure is an amplification optical fiber doped with a rare earth element, the amplification optical fiber including: a first cladding enclosing cores of the amplification optical fiber; and a second cladding enclosing the first cladding, in which the two or more cores are disposed inside the first cladding in a cross section of the amplification optical fiber, and a core cladding ratio Rcc, which is a ratio of a sum of areas of the two or more cores to a sum of areas of the two or more cores and the first cladding in the cross section of the amplification optical fiber, is 0.0095

公开(公告)号：US20240007189A1

公开(公告)日：2024-01-04

申请号：US18021991

申请日：2020-08-21

Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION

Inventor： Yuto SAGAE ,  Kazuhide NAKAJIMA ,  Takashi MATSUI ,  Taiji SAKAMOTO ,  Ryota IMADA

IPC: H04B10/291 ,  H04B10/25

CPC classification number: H04B10/2916 ,  H04B10/25 ,  G02B6/02042

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an optical transmission system capable of satisfying XT required by a modulation system even if there is an inter-core loss difference in an MCF.
An optical transmission system of the present invention includes a multi-core optical fiber having a plurality of core regions and having different losses between at least two cores, a forward excitation light source and a multiplexing unit for allowing Raman amplification excitation light to be incident on each core of the multi-core optical fiber in the same direction as signal light, and a backward excitation light source and a multiplexing unit for allowing Raman amplification excitation light to be incident on each core of the multi-core optical fiber in a direction opposite to the signal light, wherein an intensity ratio of the forward excitation light to the backward excitation light is controlled (a ratio of power of excitation light is set to a predetermined value) such that crosstalk (XT) fluctuation between cores is reduced.

公开(公告)号：US20230280525A1

公开(公告)日：2023-09-07

申请号：US18024074

申请日：2020-09-04

Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION

Inventor： Takashi MATSUI ,  Kazuhide NAKAJIMA ,  Taiji SAKAMOTO ,  Yuto SAGAE

IPC: G02B6/028 ,  G02B6/02

CPC classification number: G02B6/0288 ,  G02B6/02042

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a multi-core optical fiber including:
M (where M is a positive integer of 1 or larger) group(s) each consisting of N (where N is a positive integer of 2 or larger) core regions linearly arranged in a cross section; a cladding region that surrounds the plurality of core regions and has a refractive index lower than any of the plurality of core regions; and a coating region that surrounds the cladding region, wherein the plurality of core regions are arranged in line symmetry with respect to both imaginary lines orthogonal to each other at a center of the cladding region, a diameter of the cladding region is 180 μm or less, and a diameter of the coating region is 235 μm or more and 265 μm or less.

公开(公告)号：US20230163554A1

公开(公告)日：2023-05-25

申请号：US17913097

申请日：2020-03-30

Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION

Inventor： Shinichi AOZASA ,  Yoko YAMASHITA ,  Takashi MATSUI ,  Kazuhide NAKAJIMA ,  Taiji SAKAMOTO ,  Nobutomo HANZAWA ,  Noriyuki ARAKI ,  Ryota IMADA ,  Yuto SAGAE

IPC: H01S3/067 ,  G02B6/32 ,  G02B3/08

CPC classification number: H01S3/06754 ,  G02B3/08 ,  G02B6/32 ,  H01S3/1608

Abstract: An object of the present disclosure is to implement a clad-excitation rare-earth-added optical fiber amplifier with a high light-to-light conversion efficiency. The present disclosure is an optical fiber amplifier having, in a longitudinal direction of a rare-earth-added optical fiber, a light collection structure that collets an excitation light, which propagates through a clad portion, into a core portion.

公开(公告)号：US20220294536A1

公开(公告)日：2022-09-15

申请号：US17634193

申请日：2019-08-19

Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION

Inventor： Yuto SAGAE ,  Takashi MATSUI ,  Taiji SAKAMOTO ,  Kazuhide NAKAJIMA

IPC: H04B10/61

Abstract: An objective of the present invention is to provide an optical communication system and an optical communication method that can reduce even a delay generated in processing of obtaining a transfer function for correcting distortion in digital coherent transmission. In the optical communication system according to the present invention, pilot data for estimating a transfer function for a transmission channel is transmitted through a transmission channel with a short transmission delay time, a transfer function of the transmission channel is estimated before receiving transmission data, and the transfer function is applied to other transmission channels.

公开(公告)号：US20190245317A1

公开(公告)日：2019-08-08

申请号：US16343357

申请日：2017-10-25

Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION

Inventor： Masaki WADA ,  Shinichi AOZASA ,  Taiji SAKAMOTO ,  Takashi YAMAMOTO ,  Kazuhide NAKAJIMA ,  Takayoshi MORI

IPC: H01S3/067 ,  H01S3/106 ,  H04B10/2581

CPC classification number: H01S3/06791 ,  H01S3/067 ,  H01S3/0675 ,  H01S3/06754 ,  H01S3/10 ,  H01S3/106 ,  H04B10/2581

Abstract: An optical amplifier of the present disclosure includes an optical resonator that includes an amplification fiber capable of amplifying signal light having one or more propagation modes and resonates at least one propagation mode of the signal light amplified by the amplification fiber; an excitation light source that outputs excitation light for exciting the amplification fiber; and a multiplexer that multiplexes the signal light and the excitation light, in which the optical resonator includes a gain clamp setting unit which sets gain clamp for at least one propagation mode out of a plurality of propagation modes resonating in the optical resonator.

公开(公告)号：US20190187365A1

公开(公告)日：2019-06-20

申请号：US16327946

申请日：2017-08-25

Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION

Inventor： Azusa URUSHIBARA ,  Takayoshi MORI ,  Taiji SAKAMOTO ,  Masaki WADA ,  Takashi YAMAMOTO ,  Kazuhide NAKAJIMA

IPC: G02B6/02 ,  G02B6/14 ,  G02B6/44 ,  H04B10/2581

Abstract: An optical transmission system according to the present disclosure is a mode multiplexed optical transmission system using a multi-mode optical fiber in which a plurality of propagation modes propagate as a transmission line, the optical transmission system including an optical fiber transmission line (83) that includes an optical fiber with two or more propagation modes; and a plurality of mode converters (91) that are configured to generate mode coupling between at least one pair of the propagation modes, in which a variation in an installation interval of the plurality of mode converters (91) is equal to or less than a threshold value determined by the transmission line length (Lt) of the optical fiber transmission line (83).