Accelerated aging of phosphorus-doped optical fibers

Adverse hydrogen aging limitations in multiply-doped optical fibers are overcome by passivating these optical fibers using a deuterium passivation process. This treatment essentially pre-reacts the glass with deuterium so that the most active glass sites are no longer available to react with hydroge...

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Main Authors VAIDYA, DURGESH SHIVRAM, OULUNDSEN, GEORGE E, LUVALLE, MICHAEL, LINGLE, ROBERT JR, DIGIOVANNI, DAVID J
Format Patent
LanguageEnglish
French
German
Published 16.06.2010
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CHEMICAL COMPOSITION OF GLASSES, GLAZES, OR VITREOUSENAMELS
CHEMISTRY
GLASS
JOINING GLASS TO GLASS OR OTHER MATERIALS
METALLURGY
MINERAL OR SLAG WOOL
SURFACE TREATMENT OF FIBRES OR FILAMENTS MADE FROM GLASS,MINERALS OR SLAGS
SURFACE TREATMENT OF GLASS
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Summary:Adverse hydrogen aging limitations in multiply-doped optical fibers are overcome by passivating these optical fibers using a deuterium passivation process. This treatment essentially pre-reacts the glass with deuterium so that the most active glass sites are no longer available to react with hydrogen in service. Optical fibers of main interest are doped with mixtures of germanium and phosphorus. Optimum passivating process conditions are described.
Bibliography:Application Number: EP20100157306