DE69025737T2 - Verfahren zur Herstellung von 1xN-Kopplern für optische Fasern - Google Patents

Verfahren zur Herstellung von 1xN-Kopplern für optische Fasern

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DE69025737T2
DE69025737T2 DE69025737T DE69025737T DE69025737T2 DE 69025737 T2 DE69025737 T2 DE 69025737T2 DE 69025737 T DE69025737 T DE 69025737T DE 69025737 T DE69025737 T DE 69025737T DE 69025737 T2 DE69025737 T2 DE 69025737T2
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couplers
production
optical fibers
fibers
optical
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Daniel Aloysius Nolan
Gregory Earl Williams
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Corning Inc
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    • G—PHYSICS
    • G02—OPTICS
    • G02B—OPTICAL ELEMENTS, SYSTEMS OR APPARATUS
    • G02B6/00—Light guides; Structural details of arrangements comprising light guides and other optical elements, e.g. couplings
    • G02B6/24—Coupling light guides
    • G02B6/26—Optical coupling means
    • G02B6/28—Optical coupling means having data bus means, i.e. plural waveguides interconnected and providing an inherently bidirectional system by mixing and splitting signals
    • G02B6/2804—Optical coupling means having data bus means, i.e. plural waveguides interconnected and providing an inherently bidirectional system by mixing and splitting signals forming multipart couplers without wavelength selective elements, e.g. "T" couplers, star couplers
    • G02B6/2856—Optical coupling means having data bus means, i.e. plural waveguides interconnected and providing an inherently bidirectional system by mixing and splitting signals forming multipart couplers without wavelength selective elements, e.g. "T" couplers, star couplers formed or shaped by thermal heating means, e.g. splitting, branching and/or combining elements
    • C—CHEMISTRY; METALLURGY
    • C03—GLASS; MINERAL OR SLAG WOOL
    • C03B—MANUFACTURE, SHAPING, OR SUPPLEMENTARY PROCESSES
    • C03B23/00—Re-forming shaped glass
    • C03B23/04—Re-forming tubes or rods
    • C03B23/07—Re-forming tubes or rods by blowing, e.g. for making electric bulbs
    • C03B23/073—Vacuum-blowing
    • C03B23/076—Shrinking the glass tube on to a mandrel
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G02—OPTICS
    • G02B—OPTICAL ELEMENTS, SYSTEMS OR APPARATUS
    • G02B6/00—Light guides; Structural details of arrangements comprising light guides and other optical elements, e.g. couplings
    • G02B6/24—Coupling light guides
    • G02B6/26—Optical coupling means
    • G02B6/28—Optical coupling means having data bus means, i.e. plural waveguides interconnected and providing an inherently bidirectional system by mixing and splitting signals
    • G02B6/293—Optical coupling means having data bus means, i.e. plural waveguides interconnected and providing an inherently bidirectional system by mixing and splitting signals with wavelength selective means
    • G02B6/29331—Optical coupling means having data bus means, i.e. plural waveguides interconnected and providing an inherently bidirectional system by mixing and splitting signals with wavelength selective means operating by evanescent wave coupling
    • G02B6/29332—Wavelength selective couplers, i.e. based on evanescent coupling between light guides, e.g. fused fibre couplers with transverse coupling between fibres having different propagation constant wavelength dependency

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  • Chemical & Material Sciences (AREA)
  • Physics & Mathematics (AREA)
  • Engineering & Computer Science (AREA)
  • Materials Engineering (AREA)
  • Organic Chemistry (AREA)
  • General Physics & Mathematics (AREA)
  • Optics & Photonics (AREA)
  • Optical Couplings Of Light Guides (AREA)
  • Mechanical Coupling Of Light Guides (AREA)
DE69025737T 1990-01-04 1990-11-26 Verfahren zur Herstellung von 1xN-Kopplern für optische Fasern Expired - Fee Related DE69025737T2 (de)

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US07/461,100 US4983195A (en) 1990-01-04 1990-01-04 Method of making fiber optic coupler with longitudinal protrusions

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DE69025737D1 DE69025737D1 (de) 1996-04-11
DE69025737T2 true DE69025737T2 (de) 1996-08-14

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US (1) US4983195A (de)
EP (1) EP0436112B1 (de)
JP (1) JPH04130305A (de)
CA (1) CA2031389A1 (de)
DE (1) DE69025737T2 (de)
HK (1) HK123296A (de)
SG (1) SG47642A1 (de)

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HK123296A (en) 1996-07-19
JPH04130305A (ja) 1992-05-01
EP0436112B1 (de) 1996-03-06
CA2031389A1 (en) 1991-07-05
US4983195A (en) 1991-01-08
EP0436112A1 (de) 1991-07-10
DE69025737D1 (de) 1996-04-11
SG47642A1 (en) 1998-04-17

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