GB2562687B - Methods of manufacturing hollow-core photonic bandgap fibers. - Google Patents

Methods of manufacturing hollow-core photonic bandgap fibers.

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GB2562687B
GB2562687B GB1813894.1A GB201813894A GB2562687B GB 2562687 B GB2562687 B GB 2562687B GB 201813894 A GB201813894 A GB 201813894A GB 2562687 B GB2562687 B GB 2562687B
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photonic bandgap
core photonic
manufacturing hollow
bandgap fibers
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Rodrigue Numkam Fokoua Eric
Poletti Francesco
John Richardson David
Chen Yong
Violet Wheeler Natalie
Richard Hayes John
Petrovich Marco
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University of Southampton
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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
    • C03B37/01208—Manufacture of preforms for drawing fibres or filaments starting from tubes, rods, fibres or filaments for making preforms of microstructured, photonic crystal or holey optical fibres
    • 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
    • C03B37/00—Manufacture or treatment of flakes, fibres, or filaments from softened glass, minerals, or slags
    • C03B37/01—Manufacture of glass fibres or filaments
    • C03B37/02—Manufacture of glass fibres or filaments by drawing or extruding, e.g. direct drawing of molten glass from nozzles; Cooling fins therefor
    • C03B37/025—Manufacture of glass fibres or filaments by drawing or extruding, e.g. direct drawing of molten glass from nozzles; Cooling fins therefor from reheated softened tubes, rods, fibres or filaments, e.g. drawing fibres from preforms
    • C03B37/027—Fibres composed of different sorts of glass, e.g. glass optical fibres
    • C03B37/02781—Hollow fibres, e.g. holey 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
    • G02B6/02319—Plurality of longitudinal structures extending along optical fibre axis, e.g. holes characterised by core or core-cladding interface features
    • G02B6/02323—Core having lower refractive index than cladding, e.g. photonic band gap guiding
    • G02B6/02328—Hollow or gas filled core
    • G—PHYSICS
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    • 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
    • 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
    • G02B6/02357—Property of longitudinal structures or background material varies radially and/or azimuthally in the cladding, e.g. size, spacing, periodicity, shape, refractive index, graded index, quasiperiodic, quasicrystals
    • 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
    • G02B6/02371—Cross section of longitudinal structures is non-circular
    • 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
    • G02B6/032—Optical fibres with cladding with or without a coating with non solid core or cladding
    • 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
    • G02B6/032—Optical fibres with cladding with or without a coating with non solid core or cladding
    • G02B2006/0325—Fluid core or cladding

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  • General Life Sciences & Earth Sciences (AREA)
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  • Manufacturing & Machinery (AREA)
  • Materials Engineering (AREA)
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  • General Physics & Mathematics (AREA)
  • Crystallography & Structural Chemistry (AREA)
  • Optical Fibers, Optical Fiber Cores, And Optical Fiber Bundles (AREA)
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WO2000049436A1 (en) * 1999-02-19 2000-08-24 Blazephotonics Limited Improvements in or relating to photonic crystal fibres
US20030230118A1 (en) * 2002-06-12 2003-12-18 Dawes Steven B. Methods and preforms for drawing microstructured optical fibers
JP2005084202A (en) * 2003-09-05 2005-03-31 Hitachi Cable Ltd Plastic holey fiber and method of manufacturing the same
JP2006083037A (en) * 2004-09-17 2006-03-30 Fujikura Ltd Method of manufacturing optical fiber
US20080310806A1 (en) * 2007-06-14 2008-12-18 The Furukawa Electric Co, Ltd. Holey fiber and method of manufacturing the same
US20110121474A1 (en) * 2002-03-20 2011-05-26 Crystal Fibre A/S Method of drawing microstructured glass optical fibers from a preform, and a preform combined with a connector

Patent Citations (6)

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WO2000049436A1 (en) * 1999-02-19 2000-08-24 Blazephotonics Limited Improvements in or relating to photonic crystal fibres
US20110121474A1 (en) * 2002-03-20 2011-05-26 Crystal Fibre A/S Method of drawing microstructured glass optical fibers from a preform, and a preform combined with a connector
US20030230118A1 (en) * 2002-06-12 2003-12-18 Dawes Steven B. Methods and preforms for drawing microstructured optical fibers
JP2005084202A (en) * 2003-09-05 2005-03-31 Hitachi Cable Ltd Plastic holey fiber and method of manufacturing the same
JP2006083037A (en) * 2004-09-17 2006-03-30 Fujikura Ltd Method of manufacturing optical fiber
US20080310806A1 (en) * 2007-06-14 2008-12-18 The Furukawa Electric Co, Ltd. Holey fiber and method of manufacturing the same

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