摘要:
In the method for forming an optical waveguide according to this invention, an optical waveguide comprising a core of quartz as a main component, and a cladding layers surrounding the core is formed by deposition of glass fine particles by flame hydrolysis deposition and vitrifying the glass fine particle layers. This method includes a step of transiently increasing a feed amount of phosphorus to a flame burner in forming glass fine particle layers to be the cladding layers. Feeding phosphorus in this step for the first time after a glass fine particle layer is deposited without feeding phosphorus to the flame burner, whereby generation of foreign objects near the core dan be suppressed. The method for fabricating an optical waveguide according to this invention is for fabricating a core 132a or cladding layers 122 142 surrounding the core 132a by flame hydrolysis deposition and is characterized in that the glass fine particle layers are vitrified after the deposition of the phosphorus-content glass fine particle layer, whereby glass films 122a, 122b with a thickness of below 10 .mu.m are formed. This glass film forming step is repeated twice or more times to form the core or the glass layers to be the cladding layers surrounding the core. This invention can suppress inhomogeneous vitrified films and especially can make phosphorus concentrations in the cladding layers uniform. As a result, prapagation losses can be made small.
摘要:
A process for forming film structure using Flame Hydrolysis Deposition (FHD) in which (1) glass soot is deposited on a substrate via FHD to form a first porous vitreous layer having a first bulk density, (2) a second porous vitreous layer having a second bulk density that is larger than the first bulk density is formed from a portion of the first porous vitreous layer, and (3) a third porous vitreous layer having a third bulk density is formed by depositing glass soot containing a refractive index increasing dopant on the second porous vitreous layer by FHD. The first, second and third porous vitreous layers are then heated to form an undercladding layer and a core layer, the undercladding layer being formed from the first and second porous vitreous layers and the core layer being formed from the third porous vitreous layer.
摘要:
In the first step, a fuel and raw material gases are fed to burner while flames from the burner scan a Si substrate. Synthesized fine glass particles are deposited on the substrate to form a first porous vitreous layer to be an under cladding layer. In the second step, the first porous vitreous layer is heated by the flames. A bulk density of an upper part of the first porous vitreous layer is raised to 0.3 g/cm.sup.3. Having a raised bulk density, this upper part functions as a shield layer against GeO.sub.2. In the third step, a second porous vitreous layer, to be a core layer, is deposited uniformly on the first porous vitreous layer. In the fourth step, the first and the second porous vitreous layers are sintered. In this case, the shield layer with a higher bulk density hinders the GeO.sub.2 component which has evaporated from the second porous vitreous layer from diffusing into the first porous vitreous layer.
摘要:
A method for producing an oxide glass thin film is provided, in which volatilization of additives in a porous film from which the thin film is formed is effectively suppressed, and which the oxide glass film has a desired arrangement of refractive index with a low optical loss. According to this method, glass fine particles mainly containing SiO.sub.2 with a first additive are deposited on a substrate to form a porous thin film. A gas containing a second additive is supplied to a first chamber and heated to a first predetermined temperature profile to provide a heated gas containing an oxide. After disposing the substrate in a second chamber communicated with the first chamber, the substrate is heated to make the deposited porous glass into transparent glass while controlling a temperature in the second chamber according to a second temperature profile. A carrier gas is flowed from the first chamber to the second chamber to transfer the heated gas and oxide from the first chamber to the second chamber during heating. The temperature of the first predetermined temperature profile is maintained higher than the temperature of the second predetermined temperature profile at the same time. In addition, the heated gas contains a component that is also present in the first additive.
摘要:
A method of producing an oxide glass thin film includes a process to obtain a transparent glass film, in which volatilization of additives in a porous film deposited is effectively suppressed and which can provide an oxide glass thin film having a desired arrangement of refractive index with a low optical loss. The method is for producing an oxide glass thin film, in which glass fine particles mainly containing SiO.sub.2 with additives are deposited on a substrate to form a porous thin film and then heated to form a transparent glass film. In the method, vapor of oxides of additive components is mixed in an atmosphere in which the porous thin film is heated to form the transparent glass film, whereby stopping the volatilization of the additives in the porous film deposited, preventing diffusion of the additives added to a core layer, and preventing the volatilization of glass transition temperature lowering components of additives (P.sub.2 O.sub.5, B.sub.2 O.sub.3, GeO.sub.2, etc.). By these, a desired arrangement of refractive index may be obtained, and an oxide glass thin film may be obtained while lowering the optical loss such as the optical scattering, which could be caused by bubbles in an unsintered portion.
摘要翻译:制造氧化物玻璃薄膜的方法包括获得透明玻璃膜的方法,其中有效地抑制了沉积的多孔膜中的添加剂的挥发,并且可以提供具有期望的折射率布置的氧化物玻璃薄膜 光损耗低。 该方法用于生产氧化物玻璃薄膜,其中主要含有SiO 2的玻璃微粒子添加剂沉积在基底上以形成多孔薄膜,然后加热形成透明玻璃膜。 在该方法中,添加成分的氧化物蒸气在多孔薄膜被加热的气氛中混合,形成透明玻璃膜,由此停止多孔膜中的添加剂的挥发,防止添加添加剂的扩散 核心层,并且防止添加剂(P 2 O 5,B 2 O 3,GeO 2等)的玻璃化转变温度降低成分的挥发。 通过这些,可以获得期望的折射率布置,并且可以在降低可能由未烧结部分中的气泡引起的光学散射等光损耗的同时获得氧化物玻璃薄膜。
摘要:
A quartz optical waveguide comprising a support, a quartz glass core part formed on said support and a part which surrounds said core part and has a lower refractive index than that of said core part, wherein said core part and/or a part of said lower refractive index part through which light is guided have a functional material waveguide film containing a functional material, which has a function such as laser amplification or a linear optical effect.
摘要:
A quartz optical waveguide comprising a substrate, a ridge-form core part formed on said substrate and a part which surrounds said core part and has a lower refractive index than that of said core part, wherein a refractive index changes continuously at an interface between said core part and said part having the lower refractive index, which has a decreased transmission loss and a connection loss when connected with an optical fiber.
摘要:
A quartz optical waveguide comprising a substrate, a ridge-form core part formed on said substrate and a part which surrounds said core part and has a lower refractive index than that of said core part, wherein a refractive index changes continuously at an interface between said core part and said part having the lower refractive index, which has a decreased transmission loss and a connection loss when connected with an optical fiber.
摘要:
The present invention relates to a package in which an optical waveguide module is mounted, at least having such structure as to reduce influence of expansion or contraction (thermal stress) of a metal housing, caused with a temperature change of the external environment and applied on junction parts between an optical waveguide substrate and members for fixedly supporting tip portions of input and output optical fibers. This package comprises a cavity for housing the whole of the optical waveguide module as covered with a buffer protection material, and a metal housing having through holes for leading the above optical fibers to the outside. Particularly, the optical fibers and the through holes are bonded and secured with a filler having higher airtightness than the buffer protection material and having a lower tensile modulus than a metal material forming the housing.
摘要:
An object of this invention is to provide a mode field diameter conversion optical fiber which can be processed in a short period of time to have a reduced mode field diameter at a desired portion thereof. The optical fiber according to this invention comprises a core of silica glass having a residual tensile stress, and a cladding surrounding the core and having a lower refractive index than that of the core. The desired portion is heated to relax the residual tensile stress in the core, whereby the optical fiber has a reduced mode field diameter at the desired portion.