Corning Incorporated

Corning Optical Communications LLC

Corning Research & Development Corporation

Corning Cable Systems

Harvard College

University of Pittsburgh

Uv Partners, Inc.

Ming-Jun Li

Dana Craig Bookbinder

Pushkar Tandon

Xin Chen

Scott Robertson Bickham

Daniel Aloysius Nolan

Snigdharaj Kumar Mishra

Joohyun Koh

Jeffery Scott Stone

Ji Wang

George Edward Berkey

Anping Liu

Steven Bruce Dawes

Luis Alberto Zenteno

Shenping Li

Gaozhu Peng

Donnell Thaddeus Walton

Richard Michael Fiacco

Kevin Wallace Bennett

Qi Wu

William Allen Wood

Dale Robert Powers

Aramais Robert Zakharian

Ruchi Sarda Tandon

Manuela Ocampo

Douglas Llewellyn Butler

Alan Frank Evans

Stuart Gray

John Douglas Coleman

Stephan Lvovich Logunov

David Alan Seddon

Kenneth Edward Hrdina

Bruce Warren Reding

John David Downie

Mark Alan McDermott

Michael Thomas Murtagh

Daiping Ma

Dennis Michael Knecht

Federico Capasso

Terry Lee Cooke

William James Miller

Daniel Warren Hawtof

Sean Matthew Garner

Bradley Jerome Blazer

Robert Adam Modavis

Wendell Porter Weeks

Xinghua Li

James Andrew West

Joel P Carberry

Yanming Liu

Chunfeng Zhou

Barada Kanta Nayak

Gang Qi

David Kinney Smith

Olus Naili Boratav

Michael Heath Rasmussen

Alranzo Boh Ruffin

Jun Yang

Donald Kennedy Hall

Mark J Soulliere

David W Baarman

Jacques Gollier

Nicholas Francis Borrelli

Ying Geng

Robert R Alfano

Steven Edward DeMartino

James Scott Sutherland

Shandon Dee Hart

Michael Edward Badding

Vitor Marino Schneider

John Stephen Peanasky

Alexander Mikhailovich Streltsov

Jianguo Wang

Christopher Lee Timmons

Anne Germaine Bringuier

Andrey V Filippov

Gary Richard Trott

Dmitri Vladislavovich Kuksenkov

Naiyue Zhou

Michael Thomas Gallagher

Weijun Niu

Eric John Mozdy

Davide Domenico Fortusini

Nikolaos Pantelis Kladias

Paul Francis Michaloski

Richard Edward Wagner

Yunfeng Gu

Patrick Joseph Cimo

Keith Leonard House

Ching-Kee Chien

V Srikant

Peng Kevin Chen

James C Fajardo

Christopher Scott Thomas

Lars Martin Otfried Brusberg

David John McEnroe

Sergey Yurevich Ten

Steven Akin Dunwoody

Rostislav Radiyevich Khrapko

Elli Makrides-Saravanos

Systems, devices, and techniques for performing wavelength division multiplexing or demultiplexing using one or more metamaterials in an optical communications systems are described. An optical device may be configured to shift one or more phase profiles of an optical signal using one or more stages of metamaterials to multiplex or demultiplex wavelengths of optical signals. The optical device may be an example of a stacked design with two or more stages of metamaterials stacked on top of one another. The optical device may be an example of a folded design that reflects optical signals between different stages of metamaterials.

Wavelength multiplexer/demultiplexer using metamaterials for optical fiber communications

An anti-resonant hollow core optical fiber preform that includes an outer cladding, a plurality of structural tubes, and a central support tube. The outer cladding has a length, a central longitudinal axis, and a hollow interior. The plurality of structural tubes are disposed within the hollow interior of the outer cladding, the plurality of structural tubes each having a length that extends the length of the outer cladding. And the central support tube is disposed within the hollow interior of the outer cladding such that the plurality of structural tubes are disposed radially outward of the central support tube, the central support tube having a length that extends along the central longitudinal axis of the outer cladding. Furthermore, the length of the central support tube is less than the length of the outer cladding.

Anti-resonant hollow core optical fiber and methods of making

A method including transmitting an intensity-modulated light through a mode conditioner to generate a mode-conditioned intensity-modulated light in one or a plurality of launch conditions and transmitting the mode-conditioned intensity-modulated light through a multimode optical fiber under test (FUT) to excite a plurality of modes of the FUT. The method further includes converting the mode-conditioned intensity-modulated light transmitted through the FUT into an electrical signal, measuring, based on the electrical signal, a complex transfer function CTF(f) of the FUT, and obtaining an output pulse based on the measured complex transfer function CTF(f) from one or a plurality of launch conditions and an assumed input pulse using the equation: P(t)=(CTF(f)*(P(t))). Wherein, P(t) is the output pulse,(CTF(f)*(P(t))) is the inverse Fourier transform of the function CTF(f)*(P(t)), and(P(t)) is the Fourier transform of the assumed input pulse. Additionally, the method includes calculating modal bandwidth of the FUT based on P(t).

Frequency domain method and system for measuring modal bandwidth, chromatic dispersion, and skew of optical fibers

A rollable optical fiber ribbon utilizing low attenuation, bend insensitive fibers and cables incorporating such rollable ribbons are provided. The optical fibers are supported by a ribbon body, and the ribbon body is formed from a flexible material such that the optical fibers are reversibly movable from an unrolled position to a rolled position. The optical fibers have a large mode filed diameter, such as ≥9 microns at 1310 nm facilitating low attenuation splicing/connectorization. The optical fibers are also highly bend insensitive, such as having a macrobend loss of ≤0.5 dB/turn at 1550 nm for a mandrel diameter of 15 mm.

Rollable optical fiber ribbon with low attenuation, large mode field diameter optical fiber and cable

Disclosed herein are embodiments of an illuminator for disinfecting a surface. The surface defines a first plane. The illuminator includes a line emitter configured to emit light in a continuous line along at least a portion of at least one edge of the surface. The light has a peak wavelength in a range of 100 nm to 400 nm. The illuminator also includes a curved reflector surface and an exit aperture defining a second plane transverse to the first plane. The line emitter is positioned between the curved reflector surface and the exit aperture, and the curved reflector surface is configured to redirect the light from the line emitter through the exit aperture across the surface.

Surface illuminator having a line emitter and configured to disinfect a surface

In one embodiment, a multicore optical fiber connector adapter includes at least one multicore optical fiber stub that includes a plurality of optical cores, each optical core having an inner core and an outer core, a fiber coupling section having a first diameter, wherein the cores have a first pitch at the fiber coupling section, a multicore fiber coupling section having a second diameter that is less than the first diameter, wherein the cores have a second pitch at the multicore fiber coupling section that is less than the first pitch, and a taper section between the fiber coupling section and the multicore fiber coupling section. The multicore optical fiber connector adapter further includes at least one multicore ferrule comprising a passageway, a multicore connector, a plurality of optical fibers, and a multi-fiber ferrule.

Multicore optical fiber connector adapters

An optical system, comprising: (i) multiple input optical fibers; (ii) an optical mode multiplexer/demultiplexer coupled to said input optical fibers with, said optical mode multiplexer/demultiplexer comprising a plurality of metamaterial structures having length and forming at least one stage of metamaterials, the at least one stage of metamaterials is being situated on a surface of the optical mode multiplexer/demultiplexer facing the input optical fibers, and the at least one stage of metamaterials is oriented at angles between 60 and 120 degrees relative to the axis of the input fibers; and the metasurfaces are structured to receive a first optical signal having a first mode from at least one of said multiple input optical fibers and convert the first mode to a different mode.

Mode multiplexer/demultiplexer using metamaterials for optical communication system, and optical communication

The optical fibers disclosed have single mode and few mode optical transmission for VCSEL-based optical fiber transmission systems. The optical fibers have a cable cutoff wavelength λof equal to or below 1260 nm thereby defining single mode operation at a wavelength in a first wavelength range greater than 1260 nm and few-mode operation at a wavelength in a second wavelength range from 970 nm and 1070 nm. The mode-field diameter is in the range from 9.3 microns to 10.9 microns at 1550 nm. The optical fibers have an overfilled bandwidth OFL BW of 1 GHz·km to 3 GHz·km at the at least one wavelength in the second wavelength range. VCSEL based optical transmission systems and methods are disclosed that utilize both single core and multicore versions of the optical fiber.

Optical fibers for single mode and few mode VCSEL-based optical fiber transmission systems

Methods of forming a bandwidth-tuned optical fiber for short-length data transmission systems include establishing a relationship between a change Δτ in a modal delay τ, a change ΔT in a draw tension T and a change Δλ in a BM wavelength λ of light in a BM wavelength range from 840 nm and 1100 nm for a test optical fiber drawn from a preform and that supports BM operation at the BM wavelength. The methods also include drawing from either the preform or a closely related preform the bandwidth-tuned optical fiber by setting the draw tension based on the established relationships of the aforementioned parameters so that the bandwidth-tuned optical fiber has a target bandwidth greater than 2 GHz·km at a target wavelength within the BM wavelength range.

Tension-based methods for forming bandwidth tuned optical fibers for bi-modal optical data transmission

An article includes an optical transforming layer and a guide region positioned inside and adjacent to at least a portion of a perimeter of the optical transforming layer. The guide region comprises an inlet end positioned adjacent to a first surface of the optical transforming layer and an outlet end positioned adjacent a second surface of the optical transforming layer. The guide region propagates light from the inlet end to the outlet end such that the light is directed from the first surface to the second surface. The guide region includes a phase-separated glass comprising a continuous network phase and a discontinuous phase. A relative difference in index of refraction between the continuous network phase and the discontinuous phase is greater than or equal to 0.3%. The discontinuous phase comprises elongated shaped regions aligned along a common axis and having an aspect ratio greater than or equal to 10:1.

Optical transforming article

A process for forming glass planar waveguide structure includes producing or obtaining a fusion drawn glass laminate () comprising a core glass layer () and a first clad glass layer () and a second clad glass layer () then removing or thinning portions of at least the second glass clad layer () leaving remaining or thicker portions of the second glass clad layer (), the remaining or thicker portions corresponding to a planar waveguide pattern and resulting in a glass planar waveguide structure.

Optical waveguides and methods for producing

The optical fiber disclosed has a glass fiber including a core and a cladding. The core comprises silica glass doped with chlorine and having an outer radius rbetween 3.0 microns and 10.0 microns. The cladding has an outer radius rnot less than 50.0 microns. A primary coating surrounding the cladding has a thickness (r-r) between 5.0 microns and 20.0 microns, and an in situ modulus less than 0.30 MPa. A secondary coating surrounding the primary coating has a thickness (r-r) between 8.0 microns and 30.0 microns, a Young's modulus greater than 1500 MPa, and a normalized puncture load greater than 3.6×10g/micron. The optical fiber has a 22-meter cable cutoff wavelength less than 1530 nm, an attenuation at 1550 nm of less than 0.17 dB/km, and a bending loss at 1550 nm of less than 3.0 dB/turn.

Reduced coating diameter chlorine-doped silica optical fibers with low loss and microbend sensitivity

A coupled-core multicore optical fiber has a plurality of cores that are doped with alkali metals or chlorine to achieve low attenuation and a large effective area. The cores may be embedded in a common cladding region that may be fluorine doped. The cores may also be doped with chlorine, either with the alkali metals described above or without the alkali metals.

Ultra-low-loss coupled-core multicore optical fibers

In some embodiments, a data center optical communications system includes: a transmitter comprising a light source, wherein the light source is configured to provide light; an optical fiber operably connected to said transmitter and configured to receive light from the light source, wherein the optical fiber has a length L of 50 km or greater; a receiver configured to receive light from the optical fiber, wherein the receiver includes a detector for detecting the light, wherein the system has a power consumption of 15 W or less.

Low loss and low dispersion optical fiber for data center optical communication

In some embodiments, a method for processing an optical fiber includes: drawing an optical fiber through a draw furnace, conveying the optical fiber through a flame reheating device downstream from the draw furnace, wherein the flame reheating device comprises one or more burners each comprising: a body having a top surface and an opposing bottom surface, an opening within the body extending from the top surface through the body to the bottom surface, wherein the optical fiber passes through the opening, and one or more gas outlets within the body; and igniting a flammable gas provided by the one or more gas outlets to form a flame encircling the optical fiber passing through the opening, wherein the flame heats the optical fiber by at least 100 degrees Celsius at a heating rate exceeding 10,000 degrees Celsius/second.

Methods and systems for processing optical fiber

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