摘要:
Tapered core fibers are produced using tapered core rods that can be etched or ground so that a fiber cladding has a constant diameter. The tapered core can be an actively doped core, or a passive core. One or more sleeving tubes can be collapsed onto a tapered core rod and exterior portions of the collapsed sleeving tubes can be ground to provide a constant cladding diameter in a fiber drawn from the preform.
摘要:
Tapered core fibers are produced using tapered core rods that can be etched or ground so that a fiber cladding has a constant diameter. The tapered core can be an actively doped core, or a passive core. One or more sleeving tubes can be collapsed onto a tapered core rod and exterior portions of the collapsed sleeving tubes can be ground to provide a constant cladding diameter in a fiber drawn from the preform.
摘要:
A continuous flow process is disclosed in which optical fibre is made by a method involving the chemical vapor deposition of material upon the bore of a tube. The tube is fabricated from an annular crucible around a vertical gas feed and is lowered through a hot zone where it is softened and drawn into fibre. The gas deposits one or more layers on the inside of the tube prior to drawing so as to provide the drawn fibre with optical waveguide properties.
摘要:
Methods of forming an overclad portion of an optical fiber are described which include positioning a core cane member in an overclad tube to form a rod and tube assembly. Thereafter, glass soot pellets are positioned in the rod and tube assembly between the core cane member and an interior sidewall of the overclad tube. The rod and tube assembly is then redrawn under conditions effective to form the overclad tube and the glass soot pellets into a continuous, void-free glass layer surrounding the core cane member at a sintering time tsinter of at least 1800 seconds thereby forming an overclad portion of an optical fiber.
摘要:
A method of fabricating an optical fiber incorporating a volatile constituent, involving: (a) providing a preform comprising a cladding glass having an axial aperture and a core glass arranged in the axial aperture, wherein the working temperature of the core glass lies below the working temperature of the cladding glass; and (b) drawing the preform into an optical fiber at a drawing temperature that lies between the working temperatures of the core and cladding glasses and above the softening temperature of the cladding glass, wherein the core glass prior to drawing includes a dioxide or higher oxide compound of the volatile constituent having a Gibbs free energy of disassociation into a monoxide compound of the volatile constituent that is negative at the drawing temperature, whereby the dioxide or higher oxide compound tends to disassociate into the monoxide compound during drawing. The volatile constituent may be Sn or Pb. The method may also be adapted for incorporating P as the volatile constituent. With this method, the core material melts while the cladding glass remains solid but in a deformable state. Melting the core material, provides more freedom in the choice of combinations of core and cladding glasses. The starting material for the core may be a powder or a solid rod, i.e. the invention may be embodied as a powder-in-tube (PIT) or a rod-in-tube (RIT) method.
摘要:
The separate steps of forming an optical fiber preform and then drawing the fiber are combined into an essentially simultaneous process wherein a "stub" preform (18) is formed by means of the so-called "vapor-phase axial-deposition" method while the fiber (17) is simultaneously drawn from the end of the stub that is opposite to the end upon which the particulate matter (14, 15) is being deposited.
摘要:
Method of producing glass components and preforms for use in the method. The preform includes a primary rod having a constant outside diameter and a flat bottom portion, wherein the primary rod comprises a core rod surrounded by at least one outer cladding layer; and a cylindrical sacrificial tip having a first end attached to the flat bottom portion of the primary rod, a second end opposite the first end, and a hollow interior region extending fully from the first end to the second end, wherein the sacrificial tip is circular in cross section and the first end of the sacrificial tip has a constant inside diameter and outside diameter along its entire length from the first end to the second end, and wherein the constant outside diameter is equal to the outside diameter of the primary rod. When the preform is heated in a furnace, the sacrificial tip melts and collapses into a drawing bulb which either draws the primary rod directly into the glass fiber or results in a tapered (i.e. tipped) preform for subsequent fiber draw. Material waste as well as the drip time is reduced and the cladding-to-core ratio, crucial for waveguide properties, is maintained for the whole preform compared to a square cut preform without the sacrificial tip.
摘要:
Methods of forming an overclad portion of an optical fiber are described which include positioning a core cane member in an overclad tube to form a rod and tube assembly. Thereafter, glass soot pellets are positioned in the rod and tube assembly between the core cane member and an interior sidewall of the overclad tube. The rod and tube assembly is then redrawn under conditions effective to form the overclad tube and the glass soot pellets into a continuous, void-free glass layer surrounding the core cane member at a sintering time tsinter of at least 1800 seconds thereby forming an overclad portion of an optical fiber.
摘要:
Optical fiber preforms can comprise a glass preform structure with an inner cavity. A powder can be placed within the inner cavity having an average primary particle size of less than about one micron. The powder can be in the form of an unagglomerated particles or a powder coating with a degree of agglomeration or hard fusing ranging from none to significant amounts as long as the primary particles are visible in a micrograph. Powders can be placed within a preform structure by forming a slurry with a dispersion of submicron/nanoscale particles within a cavity within the prefrom. In other embodiments, a powder coating is formed within a preform structure by depositing the powder coating directly from a reaction product stream. The formation of the powder coating can be formed within the reaction chamber or outside of the reaction chamber by flowing the product particle stream through a conduit leading to the preform structure. In additional embodiments, a powder coating is placed on an insert, e.g., a glass insert, that is subsequently placed within a preform structure.
摘要:
An optical article having a rare earth doped, fluorinated aluminosilicate glass core composition consisting essentially, in mole %, of: SiO2 0-90 GeO2 0-90 Na2O 0-25 Li2O 0-10 K2O 0-25 Rb2O 0-25 Cs2O 0-25 Al2O3 5-40 Ga2O3 5-40 RE2(1)O3 0-40 RE2(2)O3 0-1 Er2O3 0.001-5 Yb2O3 0-5 PbO 0-15 RO 0-20 ZnO 0-10 ZrO2 0-2 TiO2 0-2 Nb2O5 0-10 Ta2O5 0-10 P2O5 0-5 B2O3 0-15 As2O3 0-10 Sb2O3 0-20 Na2Cl2 0-10 Bi2O3 0-5, and up to 15 weight % fluorine in the form of at least one of a fluorinated component of the glass composition and a batch constituent selected from a group consisting of at least one of AlF3, REF3, NH5F2, NaF, Na2SiF6, Na3AlF6, where RE(1) is at least one of Y, La, Gd, and Lu; RE(2) is at least one of Ce, Pr, Nd, Sm, Eu, Tb, Dy, Ho, and Tm; R is at least one of Ba, Ca, Mg, and Sr; (SiO2+GeO2) is in the range (40-90); and (Al2O3+Ga2O3)>(RO+“alk”2O+RE2O3) where “alk” is at least one of Li, Na, K, Cs, and Rb. A cullet-in-tube method for making continuous clad filament is also described. The invention provides for an optical waveguiding article having relatively high gain, a relatively flat gain spectrum, compatibility with conventional silica fiber, good durability and ease of manufacture.
摘要翻译:一种具有稀土掺杂的氟化铝硅酸盐玻璃芯组合物的光学制品,该组合物基本上以摩尔%计含有至多15重量%的玻璃组合物的氟化组分中的至少一种形式的氟和选自 由AlF3,REF3,NH5F2,NaF,Na2SiF6,Na3AlF6中的至少一种组成的组,其中RE(1)为Y,La,Gd和Lu中的至少一种; RE(2)为Ce,Pr ,Nd,Sm,Eu,Tb,Dy,Ho和Tm; R是Ba,Ca,Mg和Sr中的至少一种;(SiO 2 + GeO 2)在40〜90的范围内。 和(Al 2 O 3 + Ga 2 O 3)>(RO +“alk”2O + RE 2 O 3),其中“alk”是Li,Na,K,Cs和Rb中的至少一种。 还描述了用于制造连续包层长丝的夹心管方法。本发明提供了具有相对较高增益,相对平坦的增益谱,与常规二氧化硅纤维的相容性,良好的耐久性和易于制造的光波导制品。