摘要:
An optical waveguide grating with radiative mode-coupling properties, with exceptional stability and reliability as an optical component, wherein the central wavelength of the rejection band has a low temperature dependence, due to the use of silica glass doped with germanium and boron for the core. The rejection bandwidth can be narrowed without increasing the grating length by forming the radiative mode-coupled optical waveguide grating in an optical waveguide wherein the mean relative refractive index difference of the core is greater than that of optical communication waveguides. The rejection can be increased by reducing the occurrence of cases wherein propagation modes of the core coupled to cladding modes once again couple to the core in palnar optical waveguide gratings formed by making periodic changes in the waveguide structure along the direction of propagation of light in an optical waveguide having a cladding with a lower refractive index than the core surrounding the core, by making the thickness of the cladding at least thirteen times the thickness of the core.
摘要:
A method of producing an optical waveguide grating by exposure to light. An optical waveguide having a core composed of a material wherein the refractive index changes due to exposure to UV light is formed into an optical waveguide grating by applying a grating portion formation step wherein a grating portion is formed by irradiation with UV light at a predetermined spacing, and an overall exposure step after formation of the grating portion wherein the entire grating portion is irradiated with UV light. As a result, the effective refractive index of the grating portion is changed so as to allow the central wavelength to be adjusted without changing the rejection. Consequently, the grating properties can be precisely and easily controlled.
摘要:
Core comprises a main stem which is formed on a substrate, linearly extending in the beam propagating direction and short branches with a certain length which extend perpendicularly to the beam propagating direction toward both sides along the plane of the substrate and are arranged at regular intervals in the beam propagating direction. Thus, the branches are arranged in a ladder geometry when it is viewed from the top, forming a rectangular waveform arrangement. The core constitutes a grating structure in which the width of the core is made to vary periodically with the branches in the beam propagating direction.
摘要:
An optical fiber grating is manufactured by heating intermittently an optical fiber, provided with a core having residual stress in the longitudinal direction, softening a peripheral cladding of the core, and forming spatial periodical changes for the relative refractive index-difference between the core and the cladding, in the longitudinal direction of the aforementioned optical fiber by having the index of refraction of the core change, through the releasing of the aforementioned residual stress. As a result, an optical fiber grating and the manufacturing method thereof, which do not require expensive equipment and which exhibit high productivity, and furthermore a grating characteristic which is stable over time can be provided.
摘要:
An optical fiber grating is manufactured by heating intermittently an optical fiber, provided with a core having residual stress in the longitudinal direction, softening a peripheral cladding of the core, and forming spatial periodical changes for the relative refractive index-difference between the core and the cladding, in the longitudinal direction of the aforementioned optical fiber by having the index of refraction of the core change, through the releasing of the aforementioned residual stress. As a result, an optical fiber grating and the manufacturing method thereof, which do not require expensive equipment and which exhibit high productivity, and furthermore a grating characteristic which is stable over time can be provided.
摘要:
The invention provides a method and apparatus that precisely and efficiently improves the optical properties of an optical fiber grating. Preferably hydrogen loading processing, grating formation processing that forms a grating part by irradiation with ultraviolet light at a predetermined period, and preferably dehydrogenation, adjusting the optical properties by a suitable combination of uniform ultraviolet irradiation processing that irradiates the grating part as a whole with ultraviolet light and heat trimming processing, and finally heat aging is carried out.
摘要:
The invention provides a method and apparatus that precisely and efficiently improves the optical properties of an optical fiber grating. Preferably hydrogen loading processing, grating formation processing that forms a grating part by irradiation with ultraviolet light at a predetermined period, and preferably dehydrogenation, adjusting the optical properties by a suitable combination of uniform ultraviolet irradiation processing that irradiates the grating part as a whole with ultraviolet light and heat trimming processing, and finally heat aging is carried out.
摘要:
An inner cladding exposure section 14 is formed by removing a part of an outer cladding 4 of an optical amplification medium fiber 10 which has a porous layer 3 between the inner cladding 2 and the outer cladding 4 in a longitudinal direction. An end surface 23 of an optical fiber 20 for the excited light incidence is cemented on an outer periphery of the exposed inner cladding 2. The excited light 24 is incident into the optical amplification medium fiber 10 from the optical fiber 20 for the excited light incidence. By doing this, it is possible to provide a method for exciting a light in an optical amplification medium fiber which can realize a superior amplitude while emitting the excited light so as to be incident into the optical amplification medium fiber highly efficiently.
摘要:
There are provided an amplification optical fiber, and an optical fiber amplifier and a resonator using the same capable of outputting light of high beam quality even when a higher-order mode that is axially symmetric is excited in addition to LP01 mode.An amplification optical fiber 50 includes: a core 51; a clad 52 coating the core 51; and an outer clad 53 coating the clad 52, wherein the core 51 has a larger refractive index than the clad 52, the core 51 allows light having a predetermined wavelength to propagate in at least LP01 mode and LP02 mode, and in the core 51, active element that stimulates to emit light of the predetermined wavelength is doped at a higher concentration at a position where an intensity of the LP02 mode becomes zero than center of the core 51.
摘要:
There are provided an amplification optical fiber, and an optical fiber amplifier and a resonator using the same capable of outputting light of high beam quality even when a higher-order mode that is axially symmetric is excited in addition to LP01 mode.An amplification optical fiber 50 includes: a core 51; a clad 52 coating the core 51; and an outer clad 53 coating the clad 52, wherein the core 51 has a larger refractive index than the clad 52, the core 51 allows light having a predetermined wavelength to propagate in at least LP01 mode and LP02 mode, and in the core 51, active element that stimulates to emit light of the predetermined wavelength is doped at a higher concentration at a position where an intensity of the LP02 mode becomes zero than center of the core 51.