The Outside Vapor Deposition Method of Fabricating Optical Waveguide Fibers

Blankenship, M. G.; Deneka, Charles W.

doi:10.1109/tmtt.1982.1131273

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“…The global challenge to make such low‐loss optical fibers was accepted by many, though the most successful were those by Corning, Corning, NY (Keck, Maurer, and Schultz), Bell Labs, Murray Hill, NJ (MacChesney), and ITT, Tokyo, Japan (Izawa) . These teams developed the fabrication processes employed to make the bulk preforms from which optical fibers subsequently are drawn.…”

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Glass: The Carrier of Light ‐ A Brief History of Optical Fiber

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2016

Int J of Appl Glass Sci

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All voice and data communications employ silica glass optical fiber at some point in their nearly instantaneous transmission. This is enabled globally by the annual production of over 180 million kilometers of optical fiber. Since the first low-loss fiber installations, nearly 2 billion kilometers have been manufactured, which is enough to connect the Earth with Jupiter. 1 Given such a rare combination of ubiquity and utility, this article reviews the history of glass optical fiber and provides commentary on recent developments, and musings on their future.Keywords: optical fiber; glass; lasers; optical properties History Light has been illuminating the Universe since its absolute beginnings. The first documented efforts at describing light can be attributed to Euclid (circa 300 BC), 2 followed by Ab u 'Al ı al-Ḥasan ibn al-Haytham (circa 1015 a ), 3 Robert Hooke (1665), 4 Isaac Newton (1721), 5 and James Clerk Maxwell (1864).6 Indeed, it was Maxwell who is credited with unifying the fields of electricity and magnetism into electromagnetism and providing the mathematical foundation for light as it is described today.As specifically relates to optical fiber, the guiding principle for light confinement and propagation is total internal reflection. Total internal reflection was used to explain the appearance of rainbows as early as 1300 AD, independently by Al-Farisi 7 and Theodoric of Freiberg, 8 both of whom based their experiments on the work by Ptolemy. 9 However, it was not until the 1600s when total internal reflection was first systematically studied by Johannes Kepler in 1611, 10 mathematically defined by Snellius (from whom the "Snell" of Snell's Law is derived) in 1621, but unpublished until

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Section: Historymentioning

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Glass: The Carrier of Light ‐ A Brief History of Optical Fiber

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2016

Int J of Appl Glass Sci

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“…Dated from the invention of telecom fiber in 1966 [1,2], scientists around the world have strived to reduce the propagation loss of silica-based optical fiber as a means to further expand its capability and accessibility [3][4][5][6][7]. The advanced low-loss fiber has sustained optical communication systems to transmit a tremendous amount of information around the world.…”

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“…Fiber lasers, however, developed unprosperous because of the limitations imposed by contemporary technology before the invention of double-cladding fiber. Tremendous progress was achieved thanks to the maturity of low-loss optical fiber fabrication technology [4,5,8] and the availability of high-brightness semiconductor lasers [9][10][11]. Remarkably, since the invention of the first cladding-pumped fiber laser exploiting double-cladding neodymium-doped (Nddoped) fiber [12], the power record of fiber laser has been improved profoundly to 10 kW with a nearly-diffractionlimited beam quality in 2009 [13].…”

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Functional Fibers and Functional Fiber-Based Components for High-Power Lasers

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The success of high-power fiber lasers is fueled by maturation of active and passive fibers, combined with the availability of high-power fiber-based components. In this contribution, we first overview the enormous potential of rare-earth doped fibers in spectral coverage and recent developments of key fiber-based components employed in high-power laser systems. Subsequently, the emerging functional active and passive fibers in recent years, which exhibit tremendous advantages in balancing or mitigating parasitic nonlinearities hindering high-power transmission, are outlined from the perspectives of geometric and material engineering. Finally, novel functional applications of conventional fiber-based components for nonlinear suppression or spatial mode selection, and correspondingly, the high-power progress of function fiber-based components in power handling are introduced, which suggest more flexible controllability on high-power laser operations. Graphical abstract

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Electric field enhanced deposition in flame-synthesized materials manufacturing

Hwang

Daily

1995

Journal of Aerosol Science

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The Outside Vapor Deposition Method of Fabricating Optical Waveguide Fibers

Cited by 7 publications

References 5 publications

Glass: The Carrier of Light ‐ A Brief History of Optical Fiber

Glass: The Carrier of Light ‐ A Brief History of Optical Fiber

Functional Fibers and Functional Fiber-Based Components for High-Power Lasers

Electric field enhanced deposition in flame-synthesized materials manufacturing

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