Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080267229 | Optical fiber, optical fiber production method and optical fiber production system - An optical fiber includes a rare-earth element-added core for serving as a gain medium, and a cladding formed on a periphery of the core. Pump light propagated through the cladding is coupled into the core. The cladding is in an undulation shape in the longitudinal direction of the cladding. The undulation shape of the cladding is formed according to a grating period at which the pump light is totally reflected and propagated in the cladding. The core includes an undulation shape in a longitudinal direction of the core. The cladding includes an undulating inner cladding, and an outer cladding provided on a periphery of the inner cladding. The core and/or the cladding is circular or abnormally circular in its transverse cross section. | 10-30-2008 |
20080292244 | Optical fiber, sealing method for optical fiber end face, connection structure of optical fiber, and optical connector - An optical fiber includes a core, a clad formed around the core, a plurality of holes being formed in the clad, and a hardening resin having a moisture permeability equal to or less than 0.5 g/cm | 11-27-2008 |
20080292248 | Optical fiber, optical fiber connection structure and optical connector - An optical fiber includes a core, a clad having a plurality of air holes at a periphery of the core, and a hardening resin filled in a sealed portion at an end of the plurality of air holes. The hardening resin after hardening has a fill length of 7 mm to 8 mm. An optical fiber connection structure includes the optical fiber with an end face butt-connected to another optical fiber. An optical connector includes the optical fiber, and a ferrule to which the optical fiber is attached. | 11-27-2008 |
20080317416 | Optical fiber, end face structure of optical fiber assembly, and optical connector - An optical fiber includes a core, a clad formed around the core, a plurality of holes being formed in the clad, and a UV curing optically-transparent resin which is filled in the holes and hardened. The UV curing optically-transparent resin has a Young's modulus of 8 to 500 MPa after hardening. | 12-25-2008 |
20090052476 | Optical fiber for an optical fiber laser, method for fabricating the same, and optical fiber laser - The optical fiber | 02-26-2009 |
20090052840 | Optical waveguide type optical coupling arrangement - A plurality of light emitting elements | 02-26-2009 |
20090080472 | Optical fiber for an optical fiber laser, method for fabricating the same, and optical fiber laser - The optical fiber | 03-26-2009 |
20090129411 | OPTICAL FIBER LASER AND EXCITING METHOD USING SAME - An optical fiber laser, according to the present invention, has an optical fiber including a core to which a rare earth element is added and a clad disposed around the core, and also has an excitation light source for emitting excitation light incident on a side of the optical fiber. The optical fiber has a corrugated shape on the outer circumference of the clad along the longitudinal direction thereof; and the optical fiber is wound in a spiral form and is bundled in such a way that adjacent sides of the clad are brought into contact with one another. | 05-21-2009 |
20090316733 | OPTICAL FIBER FOR A FIBER LASER AND FIBER LASER USING THE SAME - The present invention provides an optical fiber, for use in a fiber laser, from which a high-quality single-mode laser beam with high optical power is obtained and also provides a fiber laser that uses the optical fiber. The novel optical fiber, which includes a core to which a rare earth element is doped and a cladding formed around the core, amplifies excitation light to oscillate a laser beam. A mode filter is formed at a predetermined position in the longitudinal direction of the optical fiber. | 12-24-2009 |
20100062098 | STAMPER FOR MINUTE STRUCTURE TRANSFER AND A METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME - The present invention can provide a stamper for minute structure transfer to be excellent in durability. The present invention is characterized by which a minute pattern as formed in one side of a substrate comes in contact with a material to be transferred and the minute pattern is transferred on a resin layer of a surface of the material to be transferred. At least one layer of a thin film is mounted on at least one side of both surfaces of the substrate, the substrate and the thin film are different in a coefficient of linear expansion each other, and the substrate is curved to swell up to be convex in the side of the minute pattern by an internal stress generated in the thin film. | 03-11-2010 |
20110103758 | OPTICAL FIBER AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - An optical fiber comprising: a core formed in a center axis area; an inner clad layer, disposed around the core, having a refractive index smaller than that of the core; a pore layer, disposed around the inner clad layer, having a plurality of elongated pores; and an outer clad layer, disposed around the pore layer, having a refractive index equal to or smaller than the refractive index of the core, wherein a length of the elongated pores is not larger than 200 m. | 05-05-2011 |
20110110637 | OPTICAL FIBER, END PART PROCESSING METHOD OF OPTICALFIBER, AND END PART PROCESSING APPARATUS OF OPTICAL FIBER - An optical fiber that has no bubbles in the ultraviolet ray curable resin filled inside the air holes to seal the end parts thereof, an end part processing method of the optical fiber, and an end part processing apparatus of the optical fiber, are provided. In an end part processing method of an optical fiber that is comprised of a core and a cladding formed around the core, the cladding having a refraction index lower than that of the core and has a plurality of air holes formed therein along the axis of the core, wherein the end part process of the optical fiber is to form sealed portions on the ends of the air holes by sealing them with ultraviolet ray curable resin, the method is characterized in that the sealed portion is formed by heating the end of the optical fiber. | 05-12-2011 |
20110142402 | OPTICAL FIBER AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME, END PART PROCESSING METHOD OF OPTICAL FIBER AND OPTICAL FIBER WITH FERRULE - An optical fiber that permits, even when the cladding outer diameter thereof is smaller than 125 μm, an eased splicing with other optical fiber using a general-purpose ferrule, is provided. The optical fiber comprises: a first optical fiber having a first core and a first cladding having a cladding outer diameter smaller than 125 μm, wherein the first cladding has a plurality of air holes that extend longitudinally along the axis of the first core; a second optical fiber having a second core to be spliced to the first core, and a second cladding having a cladding outer diameter larger than the outer diameter of the first cladding, wherein the second cladding is to be spliced to the first cladding; and a fusion splice formed between the end of the first optical fiber and the end of the second optical fiber by fusion. | 06-16-2011 |
20130016949 | MULTICORE FIBERAANM YAO; BingAACI HitachiAACO JPAAGP YAO; Bing Hitachi JPAANM OHSONO; KazumasaAACI HitachiAACO JPAAGP OHSONO; Kazumasa Hitachi JPAANM SHIINA; NoribumiAACI HitachiAACO JPAAGP SHIINA; Noribumi Hitachi JP - A multicore fiber includes cores located at vertexes of a polygonal ring and a cladding including sub medium regions and covering the cores. A refractive index of the cladding is lower than a refractive index of the cores and higher than a refractive index of the sub medium regions. The sub medium regions are arranged at positions to reduce a crosstalk between adjacent cores of the cores. | 01-17-2013 |