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 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 fibre having an axial direction and a cross section perpendicular to said axial direction, said optical fibre comprising: a first light guiding fibre portion (604) having a cladding region with a plurality of spaced apart cladding voids extending longitudinally in the fibre axial direction and a core region bounded by said cladding region, and a solid light transparent fibre portion (602) having a first end facing the first light guiding fibre portion and a second end forming an end face of the optical fibre, said solid light transparent fibre portion providing a hermetic sealing (601) of the cladding voids of the first light guiding fibre portion; a method of its production, and its use, such as an optical fibre connector and an article comprising a microstructured optical fibre with hermetically sealed end face.
Abstract:
An optical coupler, a heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) head, and a method for coupling light from an optical fiber or a planar waveguide to a slider waveguide of a HAMR head. The optical coupler comprises a planar waveguide structure configured for receiving light from the optical fiber or the planar waveguide at a first end thereof, and for coupling light to the slider waveguide at a second end thereof; wherein the planar waveguide structure comprises a bent portion disposed between the first and second ends such that the direction of the light signal is changed between the first and second ends; and wherein cross-sections of the planar waveguide structure at the first and second ends respectively are different for facilitating coupling of the received light at the first end to the slider waveguide at the second end.
Abstract:
A microstructured optical fibre comprising an inner cladding and an outer cladding; said outer cladding comprising elongated outer cladding features extending in an axial direction of the fibre, and at least one cladding recess extending at least partly through the outer cladding in a radial direction to the inner cladding; said cladding recess providing optical access to the inner cladding; a method of forming a cladding recess in such an optical fibre comprising a step of collapsing a part of the outer cladding features by use of a heat source; an apparatus comprising such a microstructured optical fibre, preferably a laser or an amplifier.
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:
Method of making a preform for microstructured optical fibres, in an aspect the method being an improved sol-gel process, wherein elongated elements, such as rods and/or tubes, extend through a tubular vessel, and being maintained in a predetermined spatial arrangement with respect to the vessel, the elongated elements being part of a final gel body resulting from the sol-gel process; a preform or part thereof for making microstructured optical fibres, the preform comprising concentric tubes and a plurality of tubes and/or rods placed between the concentric tubes; and microstructured optical fibres produced using such preforms.
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:
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.