摘要:
Boron containing glasses are sensitive to radiation in the band 225-275 nm and therefore, B.sub.2 O.sub.3 glasses are particularly adapted to receive refractive index modulation, e.g., to make reflection gratings. Glasses containing SiO.sub.2 and B.sub.2 O.sub.3 are particularly suitable when the grating is to be localized in the cladding of a fibre. Glasses containing SiO.sub.2, GeO.sub.2 and B.sub.2 O.sub.3 are suitable when the grating is in the path region of a waveguide, e.g., in the core of a fibre.
摘要翻译:含硼玻璃对225-275nm波段的辐射敏感,因此,B 2 O 3玻璃特别适于接收折射率调制,例如制造反射光栅。 当光栅定位在纤维的包层中时,含有SiO 2和B 2 O 3的玻璃特别适合。 当光栅位于波导的路径区域中时,例如在纤维的芯中,含有SiO 2,GeO 2和B 2 O 3的玻璃是合适的。
摘要:
An optical fibre for use in fibre lasers has the lasing additive eg Er.sup.3+, concentrated in center of the core. Preferably the core has an inner region which contains the additive and an outer region which is dopant free. The concentration of the dopant reduces the pump threshold for a laser and improves the gain performance for a given pump power. The fibre is conveniently made in MCVD. The use of Al.sub.2 O.sub.3 in the inner zone appears to reduce loss of dopant during tube collapse.
摘要:
Optical wave-guides, e.g. fibres, for use as photonic amplifiers have a path region partly or, preferably, wholly composed as a silica/germania glass with 0.1 to 5000 ppm mole of Er.sup.3+ as a lasing additive and alumina to adjust the bandwidth, the Ge:Al mole ratio being more than 2.8, e.g. 1:0.001 to 0.25. It is surprising that low amounts of alumina have a useful and significant effect on the lasing bandwidth whereby frequency division multiplex is facilitated.
摘要:
An optical fibre capable of monomode transmission in, and having a wavelength of zero dispersion in, the 1.55 .mu.m window and having a core comprising silica and germanium dioxide and a cladding comprising silica is drawn from an appropriate preform at a temperature in the range from 1900.degree. C. to 2000.degree. C. Fibres thus produced have low loss compared with fibres drawn at higher temperature.
摘要:
The guiding layers of optical waveguides are formed of arsenosilicate glass (ASG). By varying the arsenic content from 2 to 13 mole percent it is possible to vary the refractive index in the range 1.45 to 1.53. Pure silica or less heavily doped ASG can be used for the cladding layers. The ASG is preferably formed as the result of a heterogeneous reaction between silane and oxygen in the presence of arsine. Such a reaction can be carried out at temperatures down to 390.degree. C., allowing the ASG to be used on substrates of III-V compounds.
摘要:
An optical fibre for use in fibre lasers has the lasing additive eg Er.sup.3+, concentrated in center of the core. Preferably the core has an inner region which contains the additive and an outer region which is dopant free. The concentration of the dopant reduces the pump threshold for a laser and improves the gain performance for a given pump power. The fibre is conveniently made in MCVD. The use of Al.sub.2 O.sub.3 in the inner zone appears to reduce loss of dopant during tube collapse.
摘要:
It has been demonstrated that B containing glasses are sensitive to radiation in the band 225-275 nm and, therefore, B2O3 glasses are particularly adapted to receive refractive index modulation, e.g., to make reflection gratings. Glasses containing SiO2 and B2O3 are particularly suitable when the grating is to be localized in the cladding of a fiber. Glasses containing SiO2, GeO2, and B2O3 are suitable when the grating is in the path region of a waveguide, e.g., in the core of a fiber.
摘要翻译:已经证明含B玻璃对225-275nm波段的辐射敏感,因此B 2 O 3玻璃特别适于接收折射率调制,例如制造反射光栅。 当光栅定位在纤维的包层中时,含有SiO 2和B 2 O 3的玻璃特别适合。 当光栅位于波导的路径区域中时,例如在纤维的芯中,含有SiO 2,GeO 2和B 2 O 3的玻璃是合适的。
摘要:
An optical telecommunications system suitable for operation as a wavelength division multiplex, which system contains at least one filter for attenuating signals at wavelength which are unwanted at a location of the filter, characterized in that the filter comprises an optical fiber which contains a dopant adapted to absorb the unwanted signals.
摘要:
An improved method of manufacturing an optical fibre by vapor phase deposition of layers of cladding and core material for an optical fibre on the inside of a tubular substrate, followed by heating of the tube to cause it to collapse into a preform and drawing of the preform to form the fibre, includes performing the collapse with the introduction of chlorine gas acting as a drying agent. An alternative to chlorine gas is a vapor which decomposes in situ to yield chlorine without producing a solid deposit.
摘要:
The invention provides a selectively absorbing optical fiber that is transparent at pump wavelengths, and highly absorbing at signal wavelengths. The selectively absorbing optical fiber includes selectively absorbing species, such as rare earth ions, in concentrations sufficient to provide the desired absorbance selectivity. The fiber is useful as a fiber pigtail for pump lasers in optical amplifiers, where it can reduce the effects of multi-path interference by absorbing stray light with wavelengths in the signal band.