Abstract:
A microstructured fibre having a cladding comprising a number of elongated features that are arranged to provide concentric circular or polygonial regions surrounding the fibre core. The cladding comprises a plurality of concentric cladding regions, at least some of which comprising cladding features. Cladding regions comprising cladding features of a relatively low index type are arranged alternatingly with cladding regions of a relatively high index type. The cladding features are arranged in a non-periodic manner when viewed in a cross section of the fibre. The cladding enables waveguidance by photonic bandgap effects in the fibre core. An optical fibre of this type may be used for light guidance in hollow core fibres for high power transmission. The special cladding structure may also provide strong positive or negative dispersion of light guided through the fibre - making the fibre useful for telecommunication applications.
Abstract:
The present invention provides an improved large mode area, single mode or few mode optical fibre that is robust towards loss mechanisms such as bending losses and coupling losses. The optical fiber is aimed for use in transmission of light at at least one optical wavelength, λ. The optical fibre (10) has a longitudinal direction and a cross-section perpendicular thereto. The optical fiber comprises a core region (11) and a micro-structured cladding region. The cladding region surrounds the core region and it comprises micro-structured cladding features (12) that are arranged in a background cladding material (13). A plurality of the micro-structured cladding features has substantially similar size d - typical- ly the cladding features are circular in cross-section and d is equal to the diameter of the cladding features. At least a number of the cladding features are arranged proximal to said core region at a center-to-center cladding feature spacing, h, larger than 3 times λ. The core region is surrounded by more than six innermost cladding elements having a ratio d/h less than 0.45.
Abstract:
The invention relates to optical fibers for use in optical amplification of light, such as in optical fiber amplifiers and lasers and for use in delivery of high power light, in particular to a scheme for reducing amplified spontaneous emission at undesired wavelengths. The invention further relates to articles, methods and use. An object of the invention is achieved by a micro- structured optical fiber, which is adapted to guide light by the photonic bandgap effect and to have one or more pass bands and at least one stop- band over a wavelength range from ? stop1 to ? stop2- In an aspect of the invention, the at least one stop-band provides filter functions that suppress nonlinear effects. In another aspect, the core region is actively doped, and the active material has an emission spectrum with a higher value of the emission cross section s E at a wavelength ? ASE between ? stop1 and ? stop2 than outside said wavelength range such that amplified spontaneous emission and lasing within the wavelength range from ? stop1 to ? stop2 is reduced. In still another aspect, the optical fiber exhibits photonic bandgaps at different wavelength ranges in different radial directions of a cross section of the optical fiber.
Abstract:
The present invention relates in general to coupling of light from one or more input waveguides to an output waveguide or output section of a waveguide having other physical dimensions and/or optical properties than the input waveguide or waveguides. The invention relates to an optical component in the form of a photonic crystal fibre for coupling light from one component/system with a given numerical aperture to another component/system with another numerical aperture. The invention further relates to methods of producing the optical component, and articles comprising the optical component, and to the use of the optical component. The invention further relates to an optical component comprising a bundle of input fibres that are tapered and fused together to form an input coupler e.g. for coupling light from several light sources into a single waveguide. The invention still further relates to the control of the spatial extension of a guided mode (e.g. a mode-field diameter) of an optical beam in an optical fibre. The invention relates to a tapered longitudinally extending optical waveguide having a relatively larger crosssection that over a certain longitudinal distance is tapered down to a relatively smaller cross section wherein the spatial extent of the guided mode is substantially constant or expanding from the relatively larger to the relatively smaller waveguide cross section. The invention may e.g. be useful in applications such as fibre lasers or amplifiers, where light must be coupled efficiently from pump sources to a double clad fibre.
Abstract:
An optical waveguide with a longitudinal direction and a cross-section perpendicular thereto for propagating optical radiation at a free-space wavelength λ, the optical waveguide comprising: a core region (103), a cladding region (100,101,102) surrounding the core region, and a substantially one-dimensional (1D) periodic structure of structural elements with a period Λ; wherein said structural elements comprises cross-sectionally extended continuous elements; use of such an optical waveguide in optical amplifier, a tunable optical amplifier, an optical laser, and a tunable optical laser; a preform for its production; and a method of its production.
Abstract:
An article comprising an optical fibre, the fibre comprising at least one core surrounded by a first outer cladding region, the first outer cladding region being surrounded by a second outer cladding region, the first outer cladding region in the cross-section comprising a number of first outer cladding features having a lower refractive index than any material surrounding the first outer cladding features, wherein for a plurality of said first outer cladding features, the minimum distance between two nearest neighbouring first outer cladding features is smaller than 1.0 μm or smaller than an optical wavelength of light guided through the fibre when in use; a method of its production, and use thereof.
Abstract:
A microstructured fibre having a cladding comprising a number of elongated features that are arranged to provide concentric circular or polygonial regions surrounding the fibre core. The cladding comprises a plurality of concentric cladding regions, at least some of which comprising cladding features. Cladding regions comprising cladding features of a relatively low index type are arranged alternatingly with cladding regions of a relatively high index type. The cladding features are arranged in a non-periodic manner when viewed in a cross section of the fibre. The cladding enables waveguidance by photonic bandgap effects in the fibre core. An optical fibre of this type may be used for light guidance in hollow core fibres for high power transmission. The special cladding structure may also provide strong positive or negative dispersion of light guided through the fibre - making the fibre useful for telecommunication applications.
Abstract:
The invention relates to an optical fiber defining a longitudinal direction, the optical fiber comprising a core having a diameter larger than 10 µm, said core comprises at least two solid segments of different composition, at least one of the segments comprises a photo-sensitive material. The core may be segmented in its cross-sectional direction and/or in its longitudinal direction. The optical fiber may comprise a Bragg grating written in at least one of said solid core segments. In a preferred embodiment the optical fiber comprises a core with an effective refractive index ncore, and a cladding surrounding said core, wherein in a cross-section perpendicular to said longitudinal direction, said core being segmented, said core comprising a first core segment with an area a1 and a second core segment with an area a2; said first core segment comprises at least one photo-sensitive material, such as Ge and/or B and/or P doped silica; said second core segment surrounds said first core segment.
Abstract:
The invention relates to optical fibers for use in optical amplification of light, such as in optical fiber amplifiers and lasers and for use in delivery of high power light, in particular to a scheme for reducing amplified spontaneous emission at undesired wavelengths. The invention further relates to articles, methods and use. An object of the invention is achieved by a micro- structured optical fiber, which is adapted to guide light by the photonic bandgap effect and to have one or more pass bands and at least one stop- band over a wavelength range from λ stop1 to λ stop2- In an aspect of the invention, the at least one stop-band provides filter functions that suppress nonlinear effects. In another aspect, the core region is actively doped, and the active material has an emission spectrum with a higher value of the emission cross section σ E at a wavelength λ ASE between λ stop1 and λ stop2 than outside said wavelength range such that amplified spontaneous emission and lasing within the wavelength range from λ stop1 to λ stop2 is reduced. In still another aspect, the optical fiber exhibits photonic bandgaps at different wavelength ranges in different radial directions of a cross section of the optical fiber.
Abstract:
The present invention relates in general to coupling of light from one or more input waveguides to an output waveguide or output section of a waveguide having other physical dimensions and/or optical properties than the input waveguide or waveguides. The invention relates to an optical component in the form of a photonic crystal fibre for coupling light from one component/system with a given numerical aperture to another component/system with another numerical aperture. The invention further relates to methods of producing the optical component, and articles comprising the optical component, and to the use of the optical component. The invention further relates to an optical component comprising a bundle of input fibres that are tapered and fused together to form an input coupler e.g. for coupling light from several light sources into a single waveguide. The invention still further relates to the control of the spatial extension of a guided mode (e.g. a mode-field diameter) of an optical beam in an optical fibre. The invention relates to a tapered longitudinally extending optical waveguide having a relatively larger crosssection that over a certain longitudinal distance is tapered down to a relatively smaller cross section wherein the spatial extent of the guided mode is substantially constant or expanding from the relatively larger to the relatively smaller waveguide cross section. The invention may e.g. be useful in applications such as fibre lasers or amplifiers, where light must be coupled efficiently from pump sources to a double clad fibre.