Optical fiber with plurality of air holes and stress rods
AssigneeCorning Incorporated
InventorsXin Chen, Joohyun Koh, Ming-Jun Li, Daniel Aloysius Nolan
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Abstract
An optical fiber comprising: (i) a silica based passive core having a first index of refraction n1; (ii) a silica based cladding surrounding the core and having a second index of refraction n2, such that n1>n2, said cladding having at least one stress rod and at least one air hole extending longitudinally through the length of said optical fiber; and (iii) wherein said optical fiber supports a single polarization mode or poses polarization maintaining properties within the operating wavelength range.
Claims19
An optical fiber comprising:
- (i). a silica based passive core having a first index of refraction n1;
- (ii). a silica based cladding surrounding the core and having a second index of refraction n2, such that n1>n2, said cladding having having a plurality of stress rods and a plurality of air holes extending longitudinally through the length of said optical fiber, and all air holes in said silica based cladding being situated substantially the same distance from said core;
- (iii) wherein said optical fiber supports a single polarization mode in a wavelength range below 1900 microns, and wherein said air holes are situated less than 0.4 μm away from said core.
An optical fiber comprising:
- (i). a silica based passive core having a first index of refraction n1;
- (ii). a silica based cladding surrounding the core and having a second index of refraction n2, such that n1>n2, said cladding having at least one stress rod and a plurality of air holes extending longitudinally through the length of said optical fiber, and all air holes in said silica based cladding being situated substantially the same distance from said core;
- (iii) wherein said optical fiber supports a single polarization mode in a wavelength range or poses polarization maintaining properties within another operating wavelength range, wherein said silica based cladding includes a moat surrounding and in physical contact with said core, said moat having an index of refraction smaller than that of said core and smaller than that of said cladding.
An optical fiber comprising:
- (i). a silica based Ge doped passive core having a first index of refraction n1;
- (ii). a silica based cladding surrounding the core and having a second index of refraction n2, such that n1>n2, said cladding having at least one stress rod and at least one air hole extending longitudinally through the length of said optical fiber, wherein the diameter of said at least one air hole is 10 μm to 40 μm;
- (iii) wherein said optical fiber supports a single polarization mode in a wavelength range and poses polarization maintaining properties within another operating wavelength range, and said air holes are situated no more than 0.4 μm away from said core.
An optical fiber comprising:
- (i). a silica based passive core having a first index of refraction n1;
- (ii). a silica based cladding surrounding the core and having a second index of refraction n2, such that n1>n2, said cladding having (a) at least one stress rod, and (b) only two air holes extending longitudinally through the length of said optical fiber, the two air holes being situated substantially the same distance from said core, wherein said distance is less than 0.4 μm;
- (iii) wherein said optical fiber supports a single polarization mode in a wavelength range below 1900 microns.
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