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 5 μm, 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 n2 such that n2
摘要:
An optical fiber comprising: (i) a silica based passive core having a first index of refraction n1; (ii) a silica based cladding surrounding the core and having a second index of refraction n2, such that n1>n2, said cladding having at least one stress rod and at least one air hole extending longitudinally through the length of said optical fiber; and (iii) wherein said optical fiber supports a single polarization mode or poses polarization maintaining properties within the operating wavelength range.
摘要:
An optical fiber including: (i) a silica based, rare earth doped core having a first index of refraction n1; (ii) a silica based inner cladding surrounding the core and having a second index of refraction n2, such that n1>n2, said inner cladding having a plurality of air holes extending longitudinally through the length of said optical fiber; (iii) a silica based outer cladding surrounding said inner cladding and having a third index of refraction n3, such that n2>n3, wherein said optical fiber supports a single polarization mode within the operating wavelength range.
摘要翻译:一种光纤,包括:(i)具有第一折射率n 1的二氧化硅基稀土掺杂的芯; (ii)围绕所述芯并且具有第二折射率n 2 2的基于二氧化硅的内包层,使得n 1,N 2, 所述内包层具有沿所述光纤的长度纵向延伸的多个气孔; (iii)围绕所述内包层并具有第三折射率n 3 3的基于二氧化硅的外包层,使得n 2 N 3 N 3 其中所述光纤在工作波长范围内支持单一偏振模式。
摘要:
An optical fiber including: (i) a silica based, rare earth doped core having a first index of refraction n1; (ii) a silica based inner cladding surrounding the core and having a second index of refraction n2, such that n1>n2, said inner cladding having a plurality of air holes extending longitudinally through the length of said optical fiber; (iii) a silica based outer cladding surrounding said inner cladding and having a third index of refraction n3, such that n2>n3, wherein said optical fiber supports a single polarization mode within the operating wavelength range.
摘要翻译:一种光纤,包括:(i)具有第一折射率n 1的二氧化硅基稀土掺杂的芯; (ii)围绕所述芯并且具有第二折射率n 2 2的基于二氧化硅的内包层,使得n 1,N 2, 所述内包层具有沿所述光纤的长度纵向延伸的多个气孔; (iii)围绕所述内包层并具有第三折射率n 3 3的基于二氧化硅的外包层,使得n 2 N 3 N 3 其中所述光纤在工作波长范围内支持单一偏振模式。
摘要:
A method for producing an optical fiber is provided. The method includes the steps of drawing an optical fiber from a heated glass source in a furnace and introducing index perturbations to the optical fiber via a plurality of perturbation sources arranged at a plurality of different azimuthal locations. The index perturbations are introduced synchronously at different locations along the axial length of the fiber by the plurality of perturbation sources in a generally helical pattern on the outside surface of the fiber in one embodiment. According to another embodiment, the index perturbations are introduced by the plurality of perturbation sources at different frequencies.
摘要:
Multimode optical fiber systems with adjustable chromatic modal dispersion compensation are disclosed, wherein the system includes a VCSEL light source and primary and secondary optically coupled multimode optical fibers. Because the VCSEL light source has a wavelength spectrum that radially varies, its use with the primary multimode optical fiber creates chromatic modal dispersion that reduces bandwidth. The compensating multimode optical fiber is designed to have a difference in alpha parameter relative to the primary multimode optical fiber of −0.1≦Δα≦−0.9. This serves to create a modal delay opposite to the chromatic modal dispersion. The compensation is achieved by using a select length of the compensating multimode optical fiber optically coupled to an output end of the primary multimode optical fiber. The compensating multimode optical fiber can be configured to be bend insensitive.
摘要:
A large-mode-area (LMA) optical fiber (10) that operates as a single-mode optical fiber. The optical fiber includes a core region (20) surrounded by an inner cladding (32), which in turn is surrounded by an outer cladding (40). The inner cladding includes at least one up-doped ring region (32R1). The ring region is configured to form a large attenuation differential between the higher-order modes and the fundamental mode so only that the fundamental mode remains traveling in the optical fiber. If necessary, the optical fiber can include a bend (10B) having a select “resonant” bend diameter (DB) that increases the relative attenuation of the fundamental and higher-order modes. The optical fiber supports an effective mode field diameter (MFD) of up to 40 μm to 50 μm. As a result, detrimental non-linear effects are suppressed, which allows the optical fiber to carry substantially more optical power than conventional LMA optical fibers. The LMA optical fiber is thus eminently suited for a number of optical-fiber-based applications calling for high optical power, such as fiber lasers and pump sources for wavelength conversion.
摘要:
A method for making low PMD fiber comprising the steps of: (i) making an initial fiber preform; (ii) modifying said initial fiber preform to introduce higher birefringence than that of the initial fiber preform into modified preform; and (iii) drawing an optical fiber from the modified preform and bi-directionally spinning the drawn fiber during draw.
摘要:
An optical fiber, comprising: (i) a core, (ii) a cladding surrounding the core, (iii) at least one stress member adjacent the fiber core and situated within the cladding, said stress member comprising silica co-doped with B and F.
摘要:
A detection system comprising: (i) an optical fiber, the optical fiber having (a) a length L≧1 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 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 situated between the fiber and the detector, such that the backscattered radiation passes through the polarizer before reaching the detector.