摘要:
Methods and apparatus provide for birefringent waveguides suitable for optical systems exhibiting polarization dependence such as interferometer sensors including Sagnac interferometric fiber optic gyroscopes (IFOG). The waveguides, for some embodiments, may offer single polarization performance over lengths of about a kilometer or more due to polarization dependent attenuation. According to some embodiments, the waveguides incorporate a pure silica core for resistance to radiation-induced attenuation (RIA).
摘要:
Methods and apparatus provide for birefringent waveguides suitable for optical systems exhibiting polarization dependence such as interferometer sensors including Sagnac interferometric fiber optic gyroscopes (IFOG). The waveguides, for some embodiments, may offer single polarization performance over lengths of about a kilometer or more due to polarization dependent attenuation. According to some embodiments, the waveguides incorporate a pure silica core for resistance to radiation-induced attenuation (RIA).
摘要:
Methods and apparatus provide for birefringent waveguides suitable for optical systems exhibiting polarization dependence such as interferometer sensors including Sagnac interferometric fiber optic gyroscopes (IFOG). The waveguides, for some embodiments, may offer single polarization performance over lengths of about a kilometer or more due to polarization dependent attenuation. According to some embodiments, the waveguides incorporate a pure silica core for resistance to radiation-induced attenuation (RIA).
摘要:
Methods and apparatus provide for birefringent waveguides suitable for optical systems exhibiting polarization dependence such as interferometer sensors including Sagnac interferometric fiber optic gyroscopes (IFOG). The waveguides, for some embodiments, may offer single polarization performance over lengths of about a kilometer or more due to polarization dependent attenuation. According to some embodiments, the waveguides incorporate a pure silica core for resistance to radiation-induced attenuation (RIA).
摘要:
A tunable optical filter has a large diameter cane waveguide with “side-holes” in the cane cross-section that reduce the force required to compress the large diameter optical waveguide without overly compromising the buckling strength thereof. The large diameter optical waveguide has a cross-section of at least about 0.3 millimeters, including at least one inner core, a Bragg grating arranged therein, a cladding surrounding the inner core, and a structural configuration for providing a reduced bulk modulus of compressibility and maintaining the anti-buckling strength of the large diameter optical waveguide. The structural configuration reduces the cross-sectional area of the large diameter optical waveguide. These side holes reduce the amount of glass that needs to be compressed, but retains the large diameter.
摘要:
A compression-tuned fiber Bragg grating based reconfigurable wavelength add/drop module has a compression force assembly and an all-glass Bragg grating compression unit having gratings spaced along an axis of compression. The compression force assembly responds to a control electronics signal containing information about a selected wavelength of a channel to be added to or dropped from an optical traffic signal, for providing a compression force applied along the axis of compression. The compression unit responds to the optical traffic signal and the compression force, for providing an all-glass Bragg grating compression unit optical signal having the selected wavelength of the channel to be added to or dropped from the optical traffic signal. The compression unit optical signal may include either the traffic with an added reflected channel(s), or a dropped reflected channel(s). The compression unit is a “dogbone” structure having either a glass tube with an optical fiber fused therein, or a single large diameter waveguide having a core. The core of the optical fiber or waveguide has the gratings spaced therein. The axis of compression is parallel with the longitudinal axis of the dogbone structure.
摘要:
Techniques and systems suitable for performing low-loss fusion splicing of optical waveguide sections are provided. According to some embodiments, multiple laser beams (from one or more laser) may be utilized to uniformly heat a splice region including portions of the optical waveguide sections to be spliced, which may have different cross-sectional dimensions. According to some embodiments, the relative distance of the optical waveguide sections and/or the power of the multiple laser beams may be varied during splicing operations.
摘要:
The present invention provides a new and unique method for increasing the photosensitivity of a large diameter optical waveguide having a cross-section of at least about 0.3 millimeters. The method features loading the large diameter optical waveguide with a photosensitizing gas at a pressure at least about 4000 pounds per square inch (PSI) at a temperature of at least about 250E Celsius. The photosensitizing gas may be hydrogen, Deuterium or other suitable gas. The method also includes the step of using a particular large diameter optical waveguide having a diameter of greater than 0.9 millimeters. The method may be used as part of a process for writing a Bragg grating in an inner core or a cladding of the large diameter optical waveguide.
摘要:
A fiber optic, Faraday-effect current sensor (optical current transducer) which has improved temperature sensitivity due to compensation for temperature-induced variations of the Verdet constant. Fiber optic sensing coils can exhibit shifts in their bias angle due to a number of reasons, including physical rotation of the fibers, an apparent circular birefringence attributable to the sensing coil shape (Berry's phase), circular birefringence in the sensing fiber, or a DC magnetic field or current. The present invention takes advantage of the change in bias angle by identifying a preferred channel from the two sensing axes of the output fiber, based on the manner in which these axes respond to the change in bias angle. One of the axes will exhibit a change in sensitivity that exacerbates the change in sensitivity due to the Verdet constant, while the other channel will exhibit a change that complements, or compensates for, the change in sensitivity due to the Verdet constant. Once the preferred channel is identified, a polarizing fiber is attached to the output of the sensing coil, aligned to transmit the preferred channel to the optical detector.
摘要:
A method is provided for precise and repeatable location of one or more Bragg gratings in a large diameter optical waveguide having a cross-section of at least about 0.3 millimeters, featuring the steps of: defining a reference location on a fixed placement datum arranged on a waveguide fixture device; defining one or more desired locations on a large diameter optical waveguide arranged on the waveguide fixture location in relation to the reference location; and writing one or more Bragg gratings in the large diameter optical waveguide at the one or more desired locations based on the reference location on the fixed placement datum. The step of defining the reference location may include marking the fixed placement datum with a scribe mark thereon; and securing the fixed placement datum in a groove in a waveguide fixture device.