Lifetime extending and performance improvements of optical fibers via loading
AssigneeNkt Photonics A/S
InventorCarsten L. Thomsen
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Abstract
A method of making a microstructured optical fiber including loading the core and cladding materials of the fiber with hydrogen and deuterium at a loading temperature; annealing the fiber at a selected temperature Tanneal; pumping the fiber with radiation; and reducing the temperature of the fiber and storing the fiber at the reduced temperature before the step of pumping the fiber; and wherein the method allows the hydrogen and the deuterium to become bound to the core material and the cladding material.
Claims20
A method of producing an optical supercontinuum system comprising a pulsed pump light source and a microstructured optical fiber comprising a core and a cladding comprising a core material and a cladding material, respectively, at least a part of the core comprising silica, the method comprising arranging said pulsed pump light source to feed said fiber with pulses, wherein said method comprises loading said core material and/or said cladding material with hydrogen and/or deuterium.
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