MULTIMODE FIBER

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a multimode (MM) fiber which allows substantially excitation of a fundamental mode only and has high nonlinearity.SOLUTION: An MM fiber has a step refractive-index profile configured with a dip positioned at the center of a core 12 and includes, along the length ther...

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Main Authors NIKOLAI PLATANOV, VALENTIN GAPONTSEV, VALENTIN FOMIN, MIKHALL VYATKIN
Format Patent
LanguageEnglish
Japanese
Published 23.07.2015
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Summary:PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a multimode (MM) fiber which allows substantially excitation of a fundamental mode only and has high nonlinearity.SOLUTION: An MM fiber has a step refractive-index profile configured with a dip positioned at the center of a core 12 and includes, along the length thereof, an end region 36 at each end, frustoconically shaped transformer regions 39 that run inwards from the respective end regions 36, and a central region 38 that bridges the transformer regions 39. Width of the dip is relatively small at the end regions 36 such that only a fundamental mode with a Gaussian profile is supported. As the dip becomes larger along the input-side transformer region 39, the Gaussian profile is gradually transformed into a ring profile of the fundamental mode and is guided along the central region 38 of the MM core. The dip gradually becomes smaller along the output-side transformer region 39 such that the ring profile is substantially transformed back into the Gaussian profile of the fundamental mode to be radiated from the output-side end region 36 of the MM core. 【課題】実質的に基本モードのみを励起し、高い非線形性を有するマルチモード(MM)ファイバを提供する。【解決手段】MMファイバは、コア12が中央に凹部を備えるように構成され、ステップ型屈折率プロフィールを有し、長さ方向に、両側の端領域36、それぞれの端領域36から内向きに走る円錐台形に形状設定された変換部領域39、変換部領域39の間の中央領域38を有する。凹部の幅は、ガウス・プロフィールをもつ基本モードのみをサポートするように端領域39では比較的小さく、入力側の変換部領域39に沿って大きくなっていくのに伴って、ガウス・プロフィールから基本モードのリング・プロフィールになり、MMコアの中央領域38に沿ってガイドされる。凹部は、モード形状がリング・プロフィールからMMコアの出力端領域36から放射される基本モードの実質的にガウス・プロフィールに戻るように、変換部領域39に沿って徐々に小さくなる。【選択図】図1
Bibliography:Application Number: JP20150038299