Heraeus Quarzglas Gmbh & Co Kg

Centre National De La Recherche Scientifique

Université De Limoges

Leibniz-Institut Fur Photonische Technologien E.v.

Leukos

Ipht Institut Für Photonische Technologien E.v.

Kay Schuster

Michael Hünermann

Martin Trommer

Thomas Kayser

Enrico Ehrentraut

Walter Lehmann

Vincent Couderc

Andreas Langner

Oliver Ganz

Manuel Rosenberger

Stefan Ochs

Ralph Sattmann

Achim Hofmann

Sascha Pihan

Christian Neumann

Gerhard Schoetz

Philippe Leproux

Steffen Weimann

Stephan Grimm

Philippe Roy

Alexis Labruyère

David Kostka

Yusuf Tansel

Jaqueline Plass

Jens Kobelke

Hardy Baierl

Tobias Tiess

Jan Dellith

Guillaume Huss

Michael HÜNERMANN

Hartmut Bartelt

Vincent Tombelaine

An anti-resonance element preform for producing an anti-resonant hollow-core fiber, comprising a first longitudinal axis, an ARE outer element designed in a circular arc-like manner, and an ARE inner element, wherein the ARE outer element and the ARE inner element are connected to one another along two connecting lines, which are arranged essentially in parallel to the first longitudinal axis. It is provided that the ARE outer element has an inner space, which is at least partially limited by an ARE outer wall and into which the ARE inner element, designed in a circular arc-like manner, protrudes at least partially.

Anti-resonance preform with two contact points

Methods are known for producing an anti-resonant hollow-core fiber which has a hollow core extending along a fiber longitudinal axis and an inner jacket region that surrounds the hollow core, said jacket region comprising multiple anti-resonant elements. The known methods have the steps of: providing a cladding tube that has a cladding tube inner bore and a cladding tube longitudinal axis along which a cladding tube wall extends that is delimited by an interior and an exterior; providing a number of tubular anti-resonant element preforms; arranging the anti-resonant element preforms at target positions of the interior of the cladding tube wall, thereby forming a primary preform which has a hollow core region and an inner jacket region; and elongating the primary preform in order to form the hollow-core fiber or further processing the primary preform in order to form a secondary preform. The aim of the invention is to achieve a high degree of precision and an exact positioning of the anti-resonant elements in a sufficiently stable and reproducible manner on the basis of the aforementioned methods. This is achieved in that the step of providing and/or arranging the anti-resonant element preforms and/or the process of carrying out a hot-forming process includes a fixation measure and/or a sealing measure using an amorphous SiOparticle-containing sealing or joining compound.

Methods for producing a hollow-core fiber and for producing a preform for a hollow-core fiber

Methods are known for producing an anti-resonant hollow-core fiber which has a hollow core extending along a fiber longitudinal axis and an inner jacket region that surrounds the hollow core, said jacket region comprising multiple anti-resonant elements. The known methods have the steps of: providing a cladding tube that has a cladding tube inner bore and a cladding tube longitudinal axis along which a cladding tube wall extends that is delimited by an interior and an exterior; providing a number of tubular anti-resonant element preforms; arranging the anti-resonant element preforms at target positions of the interior of the cladding tube wall, thereby forming a primary preform which has a hollow core region and an inner jacket region; and elongating the primary preform in order to form the hollow-core fiber or further processing the primary preform in order to form a secondary preform. The aim of the invention is to achieve a high degree of precision and an exact positioning of the anti-resonant elements in a sufficiently stable and reproducible manner on the basis of the aforementioned methods. This is achieved in that while carrying out a process according to step (c), components of the primary preform made of quartz glass and/or parts surrounding the primary preform made of quartz glass are heated and softened together, wherein the quartz glass of at least one of the preform components and/or the quartz glass of at least one of the parts surrounding the preform contains at least one dopant which decreases or increases the viscosity of quartz glass.

Methods are known for producing an anti-resonant hollow-core fiber which has a hollow core extending along a fiber longitudinal axis and an inner jacket region that surrounds the hollow core, said jacket region comprising multiple anti-resonant elements. The known methods have the steps of: providing a cladding tube that has a cladding tube inner bore and a cladding tube longitudinal axis along which a cladding tube wall extends that is delimited by an interior and an exterior; providing a number of tubular anti-resonant element preforms; arranging the anti-resonant element preforms at target positions of the interior of the cladding tube wall, thereby forming a primary preform which has a hollow core region and an inner jacket region; and elongating the primary preform in order to form the hollow-core fiber or further processing the primary preform in order to form a secondary preform. The aim of the invention is to achieve a high degree of precision and an exact positioning of the anti-resonant elements in a sufficiently stable and reproducible manner on the basis of the aforementioned methods. This is achieved in that a secondary preform is formed which has an outer diameter ranging from 30 to 90 mm, and at least one of the end faces of the anti-resonant element preforms is closed prior to drawing the fiber.

Methods are known for producing an anti-resonant hollow-core fiber which has a hollow core extending along a fiber longitudinal axis and an inner jacket region that surrounds the hollow core, said jacket region comprising multiple anti-resonant elements. The known methods have the steps of: providing a cladding tube that has a cladding tube inner bore and a cladding tube longitudinal axis along which a cladding tube wall extends that is delimited by an interior and an exterior; providing a number of tubular anti-resonant element preforms; arranging the anti-resonant element preforms at target positions of the interior of the cladding tube wall, thereby forming a primary preform which has a hollow core region and an inner jacket region; and further processing the primary preform in order to form a secondary preform, including a process of elongating the primary preform in order to directly form the hollow-core fiber or to form the secondary preform. The aim of the invention is to achieve a high degree of precision and an exact positioning of the anti-resonant elements in a sufficiently stable and reproducible manner on the basis of the aforementioned methods. This is achieved in that a primary preform with an outer diameter ranging from 20 to 70 mm is used for the elongation process.

Methods are known for producing an anti-resonant hollow-core fiber which has a hollow core extending along a fiber longitudinal axis and an inner jacket region that surrounds the hollow core, said jacket region comprising multiple anti-resonant elements. The known methods have the steps of: providing a cladding tube that has a cladding tube inner bore and a cladding tube longitudinal axis along which a cladding tube wall extends that is delimited by an interior and an exterior; providing a number of tubular anti-resonant element preforms; arranging the anti-resonant element preforms at target positions of the interior of the cladding tube wall, thereby forming a primary preform which has a hollow core region and an inner jacket region; and elongating the primary preform in order to form the hollow-core fiber or further processing the primary preform in order to form a secondary preform. The aim of the invention is to achieve a high degree of precision and an exact positioning of the anti-resonant elements in a sufficiently stable and reproducible manner on the basis of the aforementioned methods. This is achieved in that while further processing the primary preform according to step (c), an external layer cylinder is used which has a radial viscosity profile such that the viscosity increases towards the interior of the external layer cylinder.

A process for the production of a fluorinated quartz glass including the steps of generating SiOparticles in a synthesis burner; depositing the resulting SiOparticles into a body; and vitrifying the resulting body, wherein a fluorinating agent having a boiling point greater than or equal to −10° C. is supplied to the synthesis burner.

Process for the preparation of fluorinated quartz glass

Methods are known for producing an anti-resonant hollow-core fiber which has a hollow core extending along a fiber longitudinal axis and an inner jacket region that surrounds the hollow core, said jacket region comprising multiple anti-resonant elements. The known methods have the steps of: providing a cladding tube that has a cladding tube inner bore and a cladding tube longitudinal axis along which a cladding tube wall extends that is delimited by an interior and an exterior; providing a number of tubular anti-resonant element preforms; arranging the anti-resonant element preforms at target positions of the interior of the cladding tube wall, thereby forming a primary preform which has a hollow core region and an inner jacket region; further processing the primary preform in order to form a secondary preform, including an elongation process; and drawing the secondary preform in order to form the hollow-core fiber. The aim of the invention is to achieve a high degree of precision and an exact positioning of the anti-resonant elements in a sufficiently stable and reproducible manner on the basis of the aforementioned methods. This is achieved in that after the primary preform is elongated, at least some of the formerly tubular anti-resonant element preforms of the primary preform have an oval outer cross-sectional shape with a longest cross-sectional axis Aand a shortest cross-sectional axis A, wherein the ratio A/Aof the length of the axes ranges from 1.01 to 1.27, and the shortest cross-sectional axis Aruns in a radial direction when viewed from the cladding tube longitudinal axis.

A method for producing rare earth metal-doped quartz glass includes the steps of (a) providing a blank of the rare earth metal-doped quartz glass, and (b) homogenizing the blank by softening the blank zone by zone in a heating zone and by twisting the softened zone along a rotation axis. Some rare earth metals, however, show a discoloration of the quartz glass, which hints at an unforeseeable and undesired change in the chemical composition or possibly at an inhomogeneous distribution of the dopants. To avoid this drawback and to provide a modified method which ensures the production of rare earth metal-doped quartz glass with reproducible properties, during homogenization according to method step (b), the blank is softened under the action of an oxidizingly acting or a neutral plasma.

Rare earth metal-doped quartz glass and method for producing the same

According to the invention, the intermediate sheath () is formed by assembling longitudinal elements (A) and includes: a first optical material, the refractive index of which differs from the refractive index of the monomode core by at most 10; and a second optical material, the refractive index of which is lower than the refractive index of said monomode core and differs therefrom by at least 10.

Triple-sheathed monomode optical fiber

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