公开(公告)号：US08873908B2

公开(公告)日：2014-10-28

申请号：US13960570

申请日：2013-08-06

申请人： Lockheed Martin Corporation

发明人： Yongdan Hu ,  Charles A. Lemaire

IPC分类号： G02B6/32 ,  G02B6/27 ,  G02B6/28

CPC分类号： G02B6/2726 ,  B23K1/0008 ,  B23K1/0056 ,  B23K26/26 ,  B23K26/32 ,  B23K2101/32 ,  B23K2103/18 ,  B23K2103/50 ,  B23K2103/52 ,  B23K2103/54 ,  G02B6/262 ,  G02B6/272 ,  G02B6/2773 ,  G02B6/2843 ,  G02B6/29311 ,  G02B6/32 ,  G02B6/3652 ,  G02B6/3672 ,  G02B6/4296 ,  Y10T29/49826

摘要： Method and apparatus for forming an optical-fiber-array assembly, which include providing a plurality of optical fibers including a first optical fiber and a second optical fiber, providing a fiber-array plate that includes a first surface and a second surface, connecting the plurality of optical fibers to the first surface of the fiber-array plate, transmitting a plurality of optical signals through the optical fibers into the fiber-array plate at the first surface of the fiber-array plate, and emitting from the second surface of the fiber-array plate a composite output beam having light from the plurality of optical signals. Optionally, the first surface of the fiber-array plate includes indicia configured to assist in the alignment of the plurality of optical fibers on the first surface of the fiber-array plate. In some embodiments, the second surface of the fiber-array plate includes a plurality of beam-shaping optics configured to shape the composite output beam.

摘要翻译： 一种用于形成光纤阵列组件的方法和装置，包括提供包括第一光纤和第二光纤的多个光纤，提供包括第一表面和第二表面的光纤阵列板， 多个光纤到达光纤阵列板的第一表面，将多个光信号通过光纤传输到光纤阵列板的第一表面处的光纤阵列板中，并从第二表面发射 光纤阵列板，具有来自多个光信号的光的复合输出光束。 可选地，纤维阵列板的第一表面包括被配置为有助于在光纤阵列板的第一表面上对准多根光纤的标记。 在一些实施例中，光纤阵列板的第二表面包括被配置成对复合输出光束进行整形的多个光束整形光学元件。

公开(公告)号：US20140205230A1

公开(公告)日：2014-07-24

申请号：US13960570

申请日：2013-08-06

申请人： Lockheed Martin Corporation

发明人： Yongdan Hu ,  Charles A. Lemaire

IPC分类号： G02B6/27

CPC分类号： G02B6/2726 ,  B23K1/0008 ,  B23K1/0056 ,  B23K26/26 ,  B23K26/32 ,  B23K2101/32 ,  B23K2103/18 ,  B23K2103/50 ,  B23K2103/52 ,  B23K2103/54 ,  G02B6/262 ,  G02B6/272 ,  G02B6/2773 ,  G02B6/2843 ,  G02B6/29311 ,  G02B6/32 ,  G02B6/3652 ,  G02B6/3672 ,  G02B6/4296 ,  Y10T29/49826

摘要： Method and apparatus for forming an optical-fiber-array assembly, which include providing a plurality of optical fibers including a first optical fiber and a second optical fiber, providing a fiber-array plate that includes a first surface and a second surface, connecting the plurality of optical fibers to the first surface of the fiber-array plate, transmitting a plurality of optical signals through the optical fibers into the fiber-array plate at the first surface of the fiber-array plate, and emitting from the second surface of the fiber-array plate a composite output beam having light from the plurality of optical signals. Optionally, the first surface of the fiber-array plate includes indicia configured to assist in the alignment of the plurality of optical fibers on the first surface of the fiber-array plate. In some embodiments, the second surface of the fiber-array plate includes a plurality of beam-shaping optics configured to shape the composite output beam.

摘要翻译： 一种用于形成光纤阵列组件的方法和装置，包括提供包括第一光纤和第二光纤的多个光纤，提供包括第一表面和第二表面的光纤阵列板， 多个光纤到达光纤阵列板的第一表面，将多个光信号通过光纤传输到光纤阵列板的第一表面处的光纤阵列板中，并从第二表面发射 光纤阵列板，具有来自多个光信号的光的复合输出光束。 可选地，纤维阵列板的第一表面包括被配置为有助于在光纤阵列板的第一表面上对准多根光纤的标记。 在一些实施例中，光纤阵列板的第二表面包括被配置成对复合输出光束进行整形的多个光束整形光学元件。

公开(公告)号：US07777892B2

公开(公告)日：2010-08-17

申请号：US11723617

申请日：2007-03-21

申请人： Masami Hatori

发明人： Masami Hatori

IPC分类号： G01B9/02

CPC分类号： G02B6/2843 ,  G01N21/4795

摘要： In an optical tomography system, a polarization changing system which converts linearly polarized light too non-linearly polarized light is provided in at least one of a light source unit, an optical path from the light source unit to a light dividing system, the optical path of the measuring light from the light dividing system to an object, the optical path of the reflected light from the object to the combining system and the optical path of the reference light from the light dividing system to the combining system. The polarization changing system is, for instance, a polarization-preserving optical fiber which is disposed so that the direction of polarization of the linearly polarized light and the direction of axis of polarization of the linearly polarized light differ from each other.

摘要翻译： 在光学断层摄影系统中，在光源单元，从光源单元到分光系统的光路中的至少一个中设置有将线偏振光转换成非线性偏振光的偏振变换系统，光路 从光分离系统到物体的测量光，从物体到合成系统的反射光的光路和从分光系统到组合系统的参考光的光路。 偏振变化系统例如是偏振保留光纤，其设置成使得线偏振光的偏振方向和线偏振光的偏振轴的方向彼此不同。

公开(公告)号：US07203397B2

公开(公告)日：2007-04-10

申请号：US10637537

申请日：2003-08-11

申请人： Yasuhiro Ouchi ,  Daiichiro Tanaka

发明人： Yasuhiro Ouchi ,  Daiichiro Tanaka

IPC分类号： G02B6/26 ,  G02B6/42 ,  G02B6/02 ,  C03B37/023

CPC分类号： G02B6/2835 ,  G02B6/2843 ,  G02B2006/2839

摘要： There is provided a polarization maintaining optical fiber coupler and a method of manufacturing this polarization maintaining optical fiber coupler in which manufacturing is simplified and excess loss is reduced. A polarization maintaining optical fiber coupler is provided in which, in at least one of the polarization maintaining optical fibers forming the fused and extended portion, the ratio of the [diameter of the core/the diameter of the cladding] or [the distance between the two stress applying portions/the diameter of the cladding] is greater than the ration of the [diameter of the core/the diameter of the cladding] or [the distance between the two stress applying portions/the diameter of the cladding in the portions of the polarization maintaining optical fibers that do not form the fused and extended portion]. In addition, in this polarization maintaining optical fiber coupler, in the fused and extended portion, the stress applying portions are enveloped by the cladding. Moreover, polarization maintaining optical fibers are used in which the distance between adjacent outer circumferences of the two stress applying portions is 20 μm or more.

摘要翻译： 提供了一种偏振维持光纤耦合器和制造这种偏振保持光纤耦合器的方法，其中制造简化并且过多的损耗减小。 提供一种偏振保持光纤耦合器，其中在形成熔融和延伸部分的至少一个偏振保持光纤中，[芯的直径/包层的直径]或[ 两个应力施加部分/包层的直径]大于[芯的直径/包层的直径]或[两个应力施加部分之间的距离/包层部分的直径 不形成熔融和延伸部分的偏振保持光纤]。 此外，在这种偏振保持光纤耦合器中，在熔融和延伸部分中，应力施加部分被包层包围。 此外，使用偏振维持光纤，其中两个应力施加部分的相邻外周之间的距离为20μm或更大。

公开(公告)号：US20020159704A1

公开(公告)日：2002-10-31

申请号：US10079288

申请日：2002-02-20

申请人： JDS Uniphase Corporation

发明人： Andrew Richard Rider ,  Andrew Robertson

IPC分类号： G02B006/26

CPC分类号： G02B6/2835 ,  G02B6/2843

摘要： A fused optical coupler has a PM and a non-PM fiber with equal clad diameters. The fibers are plaited together without applying torsional force on either fiber, fused and stretched to a degree resulting in a tap ratio not more than 10% and PER higher than about 20 dB.

摘要翻译： 熔融光耦合器具有PM和具有相等包层直径的非PM光纤。 将纤维编织在一起，而不对任一纤维施加扭转力，熔化并拉伸到一定程度，导致分接比不超过10％且PER高于约20dB。

公开(公告)号：US5689578A

公开(公告)日：1997-11-18

申请号：US318848

申请日：1994-10-25

申请人： Ryozo Yamauchi ,  Kuniharu Himeno ,  Minoru Sawada ,  Fumio Suzuki ,  Kazuhiko Aikawa ,  Tetsuo Nozawa ,  Shigefumi Yamasaki

发明人： Ryozo Yamauchi ,  Kuniharu Himeno ,  Minoru Sawada ,  Fumio Suzuki ,  Kazuhiko Aikawa ,  Tetsuo Nozawa ,  Shigefumi Yamasaki

IPC分类号： C03B37/012 ,  G02B6/10 ,  G02B6/255 ,  G02B6/28 ,  G02B6/34 ,  H01S3/067

CPC分类号： G02B6/024 ,  C03B37/01217 ,  C03B37/01222 ,  G02B6/02042 ,  G02B6/2843 ,  H01S3/06708 ,  C03B2201/31 ,  C03B2201/36 ,  C03B2203/02 ,  C03B2203/12 ,  C03B2203/22 ,  C03B2203/30 ,  C03B2203/31 ,  C03B2203/34 ,  G02B6/2551 ,  G02B6/2552

摘要： The polarization-maintaining optical fiber 10 of the present invention is designed so that a plurality of core portions 12a,12b which have a high refractive index is provided in parallel along a single diameter direction in the cross section of the optical fiber, these core portions 12a,12b cooperating to propagate a single fundamental mode. In the production method for the polarization-maintaining optical fiber of the present invention, a plurality of holes 22 are formed longitudinally in parallel along a single diameter direction of a glass rod 21 having a low refractive index which forms the cladding, glass rods 23 for core use having a high refractive index which form the core portions are inserted into these holes 22, heating to form a unitary body is carried out, creating a preform which is then drawn. Further, the rare-earth-doped polarization-maintaining optical fiber of the present invention uses a rare earth element to dope the optical waveguide portion of the polarization-maintaining optical fiber, and can be employed in a light amplifier or laser oscillator. Moreover, the polarization-maintaining optical fiber coupler of the present invention is formed by bringing two or more polarization maintaining optical fibers into contact, heating, fusing and elongating them, and heating the vicinity of the connection point before and after connection.

摘要翻译： PCT No.PCT / JP94 / 00300 Sec。 371日期：1994年10月25日 102（e）日期1994年10月25日PCT 1994年2月24日PCT PCT。 第WO94 / 17714号公报 日期1994年9月1日本发明的偏振波保持光纤10被设计成使得在光学部件的横截面中沿着单一直径方向平行设置多个具有高折射率的芯部12a，12b 光纤，这些芯部分12a，12b协作传播单个基本模式。 在本发明的偏振波保持光纤的制造方法中，多个孔22沿着形成包层的折射率低的玻璃棒21的单一直径方向纵向平行地形成，玻璃棒23用于 形成芯部的具有高折射率的芯用途被插入到这些孔22中，进行加热以形成整体，形成预先形成的预成型体。 此外，本发明的稀土掺杂偏振保持光纤使用稀土元素来掺杂保偏光纤的光波导部分，并且可以用在光放大器或激光振荡器中。 此外，本发明的偏振保持光纤耦合器是通过使两个或更多个保偏光纤接触，加热，熔化和拉伸，以及在连接之前和之后加热连接点附近而形成的。

公开(公告)号：US5617499A

公开(公告)日：1997-04-01

申请号：US525960

申请日：1995-09-08

申请人： Steven R. J. Brueck ,  Xiang-Cun Long

发明人： Steven R. J. Brueck ,  Xiang-Cun Long

IPC分类号： G02B6/02 ,  G02B6/245 ,  G02B6/28 ,  G02F1/065 ,  G02F1/225 ,  G02F1/355 ,  G02B6/16

CPC分类号： G02F1/3558 ,  G02B6/02 ,  G02B6/245 ,  G02B6/02076 ,  G02B6/2843 ,  G02F1/065 ,  G02F1/225

摘要： A low-cost fabrication technique, readily extensible to volume manufacturing is presented for an electrooptically active fiber segment that can be simply integrated into optoelectronic devices. The fabrication technique offers a dielectric isolation structure surrounding the fiber to allow high field poling, a pair of electrodes used both for poling and for inducing an electrooptic effect, and ends of the fiber unaffected by the fabrication and available for splicing with additional fiber sections. The technique is readily adaptable to specialized electrode structures including striplines and/or microstrip lines for high frequency applications and segmented electrodes for quasi-phasematched three-wave mixing applications. By combining the electrooptically active fiber segment with other fibers in an integrated fiber modulator, high frequency modulation of an optical signal may be achieved with applications in telecommunications. By including a Bragg grating structure in the same fiber segment, a remotely accessible electric field sensor is achieved. Three-wave mixing processes in the electrooptically active fiber segment will allow the generation of additional coherent radiation sources in both the visible/UV and infrared spectral ranges.

摘要翻译： 对于可以简单地集成到光电子器件中的电光活性光纤段，呈现容易制造的易于扩展的低成本制造技术。 制造技术提供围绕光纤的介电隔离结构，以允许高场极化，用于极化和诱导电光效应的一对电极以及不受制造影响并可用于与额外的光纤部分拼接的光纤的端部。 该技术易于适用于专用电极结构，包括用于高频应用的带状线和/或微带线以及用于准相位三波混频应用的分段电极。 通过将电光有源光纤段与集成光纤调制器中的其他光纤组合，可以在电信应用中实现光信号的高频调制。 通过在相同的光纤段中包括布拉格光栅结构，实现了可远程访问的电场传感器。 电光活性纤维段中的三波混合过程将允许在可见/紫外和红外光谱范围内产生附加的相干辐射源。

公开(公告)号：US5420949A

公开(公告)日：1995-05-30

申请号：US101061

申请日：1993-08-03

申请人： Tadao Arima ,  Koji Okamura

发明人： Tadao Arima ,  Koji Okamura

IPC分类号： G02B6/024 ,  G02B6/28 ,  G02B6/10 ,  C03B23/20

CPC分类号： G02B6/2835 ,  G02B6/2843

摘要： Disclosed is a polarization-splitting fiber coupler capable of stably executing a polarization separation/coupling and a method of stably manufacturing the polarization-splitting fiber coupler at a low cost. The method comprises the steps of (1) arranging a plurality of non-polarization fibers in parallel so that the side surfaces thereof come into contact to each other; (2) heating and fusing a portion of the arranged non-polarization fibers by controlling a heating temperature and a heating time so that the cross section of the fused portion thereof has an aspect ratio of 1.85-1.95; (3) thereafter, forming a fused/drawn portion by drawing the fused portion while keeping the aspect ratio after lowering the heating temperature; and (4) connecting polarization-maintaining fibers to the respective ends of the fused/drawn portion, respectively. Further, a portion of the connected polarization-maintaining fiber is heated and drawn to a taper-shape to provide the heated-fused portion with a polarizer function.

摘要翻译： 公开了能够稳定地执行偏振分离/耦合的偏振分束光纤耦合器和以低成本稳定地制造偏振分束光纤耦合器的方法。 该方法包括以下步骤：（1）平行布置多个非偏振光纤，使得其侧表面彼此接触; （2）通过控制加热温度和加热时间来加热和熔融所配置的非极化纤维的一部分，使得其熔融部分的横截面具有1.85-1.95的纵横比; （3）之后，通过在降低加热温度后保持纵横比来拉伸熔融部分来形成熔融/拉伸部分; 和（4）将偏振保持光纤分别连接到熔融/拉出部分的各个端部。 此外，连接的偏振保持光纤的一部分被加热并拉伸成锥形，以使加热熔融部分具有偏振器功能。

公开(公告)号：US5064267A

公开(公告)日：1991-11-12

申请号：US580920

申请日：1990-09-10

申请人： Rolf Rossberg

发明人： Rolf Rossberg

IPC分类号： C03B37/15 ,  G02B6/28 ,  G02B6/34

CPC分类号： G02B6/29332 ,  G02B6/2835 ,  G02B6/2843

摘要： During the process of manufacturing polarization-selective fused-fiber couplers (1) having two or more input fibers and two or more output fibers and formed in the coupling region (fused region 6) from parallel, nonbirefringent, matched-cladding single-mode fibers, prior to the fusion of the fibers, linearly polarized light with a selected wavelength is fed into one of the input fibers (2) and detected at the ends of the two output fibers (3). The fibers are thereupon fused together with the coupler (1) being drawn until the coupling between the two fibers ceases to fluctuate. The source of heat is then turned off. With the method it is possible to manufacture fused-fiber couplers (1) whose lengths are only approximately 10 mm to 15 mm.

摘要翻译： 在制造具有两个或更多个输入光纤和两个或更多个输出光纤的偏振选择性熔融光纤耦合器（1）的过程中，并且在耦合区域（熔融区域6）中形成平行的非双折射匹配包层单模光纤 在纤维融合之前，将具有选定波长的线偏振光馈送到输入光纤（2）之一并在两根输出光纤（3）的端部进行检测。 然后将纤维与被牵引的耦合器（1）熔合在一起，直到两个纤维之间的耦合停止波动。 然后关闭热源。 使用该方法，可以制造长度仅为约10mm至15mm的熔融纤维耦合器（1）。

公开(公告)号：US5024501A

公开(公告)日：1991-06-18

申请号：US506402

申请日：1990-04-09

申请人： Hiroyuki Taya ,  Mikio Yoshinuma ,  Takeshi Yamada ,  Kenji Nishide ,  Fumio Suzuki ,  Hirohisa Fujimoto ,  Ryozo Yamauchi

发明人： Hiroyuki Taya ,  Mikio Yoshinuma ,  Takeshi Yamada ,  Kenji Nishide ,  Fumio Suzuki ,  Hirohisa Fujimoto ,  Ryozo Yamauchi

IPC分类号： G02B6/28

CPC分类号： G02B6/2843

摘要： The present invention discloses a manufacturing method for polarization maintaining optical fiber couplers which are used for joining light signals and at optical fiber branch points. The disclosed manufacturing method employs polarization maintaining optical fibers, and describes a method for mutually aligning the stress applying parts of such optical fibers so that polarized optical signals are maintained in the polarized state when transiting such couplers.