OPTICAL FIBER WITH LOW LOSS AND NANOSCALE STRUCTURALLY HOMOGENEOUS CORE

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an optical fiber with a low loss and nanoscale structurally homogeneous core.SOLUTION: An optical fiber has a core region that is doped with one or more viscosity-reducing dopants in respective amounts that are configured such that, in a Raman spectrum with a frequen...

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Hauptverfasser: RASMUS V JENSEN, DENNIS J TREVOR, OLE A LEVRING, BENYUAN ZHU, JORGEN OSTGAARD OLSEN, WISK PATRICK W, PETER I BOREL, DAVID W PECKHAM, YAN MAN F, TOMMY GEISLER
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Zusammenfassung:PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an optical fiber with a low loss and nanoscale structurally homogeneous core.SOLUTION: An optical fiber has a core region that is doped with one or more viscosity-reducing dopants in respective amounts that are configured such that, in a Raman spectrum with a frequency shift of approximately 600 cm, the fiber has a nanoscale structure having an integrated D2 line defect intensity of less than 0.025. Alternatively, the core region is doped with one or more viscosity-reducing dopants in respective amounts that are configured such that the fiber has a residual axial compressive stress with a stress magnitude of more than 20 MPa and a stress radial extent between 2 and 7 times the core radius. According to another aspect of the invention, a majority of optical propagation through the fiber is supported by an identified group of fiber regions comprising the core region and one or more adjacent cladding regions. The fiber regions are doped with one or more viscosity-reducing dopants in respective amounts and radial positions that are configured to achieve viscosity matching among the fiber regions in the identified group.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 19 【課題】低損失でナノスケール構造的に均一なコアを有する光ファイバを提供する。【解決手段】光ファイバは、約600cm−1の周波数シフトを有するラマンスペクトルにてファイバが0.025未満の積分D2線欠陥強度のナノスケール構造体を有するように構成されたそれぞれの量で1つ以上の粘度降下ドーパントでドープされたコア領域を有する。あるいは、コア領域は、ファイバが20MPa超の応力及びコア半径の2〜7倍の応力の径方向範囲の残留軸圧縮応力を有するように構成されたそれぞれの量で1つ以上の粘度降下ドーパントでドープされる。他の態様では、ファイバを通る光伝搬の大部分は、コア領域及び1以上の隣接クラッド領域を備えるファイバ領域の同定された群によって支えられる。ファイバ領域は、同定群のファイバ領域間で粘度マッチングを実現するように構成されたそれぞれの量及び径方向位置で1つ以上の粘度降下ドーパントでドープされる。【選択図】図19