Method of fabricating optical fiber or optical device doped with reduced metal ion and/or rare earth ion
AssigneesOptonest Corporation, K-JIST (Kwangju Institute of Science and Technology)
InventorsWon-Taek Han, Yune-Hyoun Kim, Tae-Jung Ahn
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Abstract
Disclosed is a method of fabricating an optical fiber or an optical device doped with reduced metal ion and/or rare earth ion, comprising steps of: forming a partially-sintered fine structure in a base material for fabricating the optical fiber or the optical device; soaking the fine structure into a doping solution containing a reducing agent together with metal ion and rare earth ion during a selected time; drying the fine structure in which the metal ion and/or rare ion are/is soaked; and heating the fine structure such that the fine structure is sintered.
Claims6
A method of fabricating an optical fiber or an optical device, comprising the steps of:
- forming a partially-sintered fine structure in a base material for fabricating the optical fiber or the optical device;
- soaking the partially-sintered fine structure in a doping solution, which contains a reducing agent and a doping ion selected from the group consisting of a metal ion, a rare earth ion, and a mixture thereof, for a selected duration;
- drying the partially-sintered fine structure after having been soaked in the doping solution;
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- heating the partially-sintered fine structure after drying such that the doping ion is reduced, directly or indirectly, by the reducing agent and the partially-sintered fine structure is sintered,
- wherein the reducing agent is at least one selected from the group consisting of glucose, sucrose, glycerin, dextrin, benzene, phenol, hexane, toluene, styrene, naphthalene, TEOS (tetraethyl orthosilicate), TMOS (tetramethyl orthosilicate), TEOC (tetraethyl orthocarbonate), and TMOC (tetramethyl orthocarbonate).
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