GRADED-INDEX POLYMER OPTICAL FIBRE AND THE FABRICATION THEREOF

    公开(公告)号:US20230314696A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-10-05

    申请号:US17710926

    申请日:2022-03-31

    IPC分类号: G02B6/02 G02B6/036

    CPC分类号: G02B6/02038 G02B6/03633

    摘要: A method of fabricating a graded-index polymer optical fibre comprises preparing a cladding composition, the cladding composition comprising either a mixture of a cladding polymer and a dopant or a mixture of a cladding polymer precursor and a dopant; forming cladding from the cladding composition around a core, the core comprising a core polymer; and causing diffusion of the dopant into the core such that the dopant has a continuous concentration gradient, according to which concentration gradient the concentration of the dopant increases with radial distance from a centre of the core. The dopant is a compound having a refractive index which is lower than a refractive index of the core polymer. By distributing the dopant such that the dopant concentration is lowest at the centre of the core, the optical attenuation of the graded-index polymer optical fibre may be reduced. Also provided is a graded-index polymer optical fibre obtainable by the method.

    COMMUNICATION IN A SWITCHING NETWORK

    公开(公告)号:US20220345226A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-10-27

    申请号:US17763158

    申请日:2020-09-16

    摘要: A switching network for effecting point-to-point communication between nodes has a time-varying switching configuration, which causes successive activation and deactivation of multiple channels of the switching network, a first of the channels connecting, when activated, a transmitter node and a first receiver node, and a second of the channels connecting, when activated, the transmitter node and a second receiver node. In a training phase, a method comprises: transmitting from the transmitter node via each channel a known training signal, to cause each receiver node to receive a distorted training signal, using the first distorted training signal and knowledge of the first known training signal to determine respective one or more transmit-side equalizer (EQ) coefficients for each channel, and storing, in memory accessible to the transmitter node, the first transmit-side EQ coefficients, in association with each channel, for use in conducting scheduled communications over the switching network in a communications phase.