GB2380811B - Inflexible optical waveguide cane with core, cladding and jacket regions - Google Patents

Inflexible optical waveguide cane with core, cladding and jacket regions

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GB2380811B
GB2380811B GB0301865A GB0301865A GB2380811B GB 2380811 B GB2380811 B GB 2380811B GB 0301865 A GB0301865 A GB 0301865A GB 0301865 A GB0301865 A GB 0301865A GB 2380811 B GB2380811 B GB 2380811B
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cladding
core
optical waveguide
jacket regions
cane
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Philip St John Russell
Timothy Adam Birks
Jonathan Cave Knight
Brian Joseph Mangan
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Blazephotonics Ltd
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Blazephotonics Ltd
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    • C—CHEMISTRY; METALLURGY
    • C03—GLASS; MINERAL OR SLAG WOOL
    • C03B—MANUFACTURE, SHAPING, OR SUPPLEMENTARY PROCESSES
    • C03B37/00—Manufacture or treatment of flakes, fibres, or filaments from softened glass, minerals, or slags
    • C03B37/01—Manufacture of glass fibres or filaments
    • C03B37/012—Manufacture of preforms for drawing fibres or filaments
    • C03B37/01205—Manufacture of preforms for drawing fibres or filaments starting from tubes, rods, fibres or filaments
    • C03B37/01225—Means for changing or stabilising the shape, e.g. diameter, of tubes or rods in general, e.g. collapsing
    • C03B37/0124—Means for reducing the diameter of rods or tubes by drawing, e.g. for preform draw-down
    • C—CHEMISTRY; METALLURGY
    • C03—GLASS; MINERAL OR SLAG WOOL
    • C03B—MANUFACTURE, SHAPING, OR SUPPLEMENTARY PROCESSES
    • C03B37/00—Manufacture or treatment of flakes, fibres, or filaments from softened glass, minerals, or slags
    • C03B37/01—Manufacture of glass fibres or filaments
    • C03B37/012—Manufacture of preforms for drawing fibres or filaments
    • C03B37/01205—Manufacture of preforms for drawing fibres or filaments starting from tubes, rods, fibres or filaments
    • C03B37/01211—Manufacture of preforms for drawing fibres or filaments starting from tubes, rods, fibres or filaments by inserting one or more rods or tubes into a tube
    • C03B37/0122—Manufacture of preforms for drawing fibres or filaments starting from tubes, rods, fibres or filaments by inserting one or more rods or tubes into a tube for making preforms of photonic crystal, microstructured or holey optical fibres
    • C—CHEMISTRY; METALLURGY
    • C03—GLASS; MINERAL OR SLAG WOOL
    • C03B—MANUFACTURE, SHAPING, OR SUPPLEMENTARY PROCESSES
    • C03B2203/00—Fibre product details, e.g. structure, shape
    • C03B2203/10—Internal structure or shape details
    • C03B2203/14—Non-solid, i.e. hollow products, e.g. hollow clad or with core-clad interface
    • C—CHEMISTRY; METALLURGY
    • C03—GLASS; MINERAL OR SLAG WOOL
    • C03B—MANUFACTURE, SHAPING, OR SUPPLEMENTARY PROCESSES
    • C03B2203/00—Fibre product details, e.g. structure, shape
    • C03B2203/42—Photonic crystal fibres, e.g. fibres using the photonic bandgap PBG effect, microstructured or holey optical fibres
    • 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
    • G02B6/02—Optical fibres with cladding with or without a coating
    • G02B6/02295—Microstructured optical fibre
    • G02B6/02314—Plurality of longitudinal structures extending along optical fibre axis, e.g. holes
    • G02B6/02342—Plurality of longitudinal structures extending along optical fibre axis, e.g. holes characterised by cladding features, i.e. light confining region
    • G02B6/02347—Longitudinal structures arranged to form a regular periodic lattice, e.g. triangular, square, honeycomb unit cell repeated throughout cladding
GB0301865A 2000-07-28 2001-07-30 Inflexible optical waveguide cane with core, cladding and jacket regions Expired - Lifetime GB2380811B (en)

Applications Claiming Priority (2)

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GB0018676A GB0018676D0 (en) 2000-07-28 2000-07-28 An optical waveguide
PCT/GB2001/003439 WO2002010817A1 (en) 2000-07-28 2001-07-30 An optical waveguide

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GB0301865D0 GB0301865D0 (en) 2003-02-26
GB2380811A GB2380811A (en) 2003-04-16
GB2380811B true GB2380811B (en) 2004-05-05

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US5802236A (en) * 1997-02-14 1998-09-01 Lucent Technologies Inc. Article comprising a micro-structured optical fiber, and method of making such fiber
WO2000006506A1 (en) * 1998-07-30 2000-02-10 Corning Incorporated Method of fabricating photonic structures
WO2000037974A1 (en) * 1998-12-21 2000-06-29 Corning Incorporated Photonic crystal fiber

Non-Patent Citations (2)

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Title
BLANCHARD P M ET AL:"TWO DIMENSIONAL BEND SENSING WITH A SINGLE,MULTI-CORE OPTICAL FIBRE"SMART MATERIALS AND STRUCTURES, IOP PUBLISHING LIMITED., BRISTOL, GB, vol.9, no.2, April 2000 (2000-04), pages 132-140, XP000920146 ISSN: 0964-1726 page 133; figures 1,9 *
KNIGHT J C ET AL:"ALL-SILICA SINGLE-MODE OPTICAL FIBER WITH PHOTONIC CRYSTAL CLADDING" OPTICS LETTERS,OPTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA, WASHINGTON, US, vol.21, no.19, 1 October 1996 (1996-10-01), pages 1547-1549, XP000630414 ISSN: 0146-9592the whole document *

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GB0301865D0 (en) 2003-02-26

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