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6792214 Dispersion compensation in optical fiber transmission lines  
An optical transmission system designed for gigabit pulse rates and Raman pumping in which there is essentially no pre-dispersion compensation and the in-line dispersion compensation at the start...
6792166 Laser assisted thermal poling of silica based waveguides  
A method of thermally poling a silica based waveguide ( 12 ) comprises exposing a region of the waveguide ( 12 ) to an electric field (for example, via capillary electrodes ( 22, 24 ) inserted into...
6788865 Polarization maintaining optical fiber with improved polarization maintaining property  
A polarization maintaining optical fiber is formed by using a core in a cross sectional shape having different diameters along two orthogonal axes defined on a plane perpendicular to an optical...
6788864 High index-contrast fiber waveguides and applications  
High index-contrast fiber waveguides, materials for forming high index-contrast fiber waveguides, and applications of high index-contrast fiber waveguides are disclosed.
6785461 Blockless fiber optic attenuators and attenuation systems employing dispersion tailored polymers  
Controllable fiber optic attenuators and attenuation systems are disclosed for controllably extracting optical energy from a fiber optic, and therefore attenuating the optical signal being...
6785456 Dispersion managed cable for unrepeatered systems  
Optical fibers of different physical characteristics are combined to produce a hybrid fiber which, at the operating wavelength, has a relatively large effective area and desirable net dispersion...
6785454 Optical waveguide and optical circuit base component  
In a conventional optical waveguide using a photonic crystal, loss of light occurs in the substrate therebelow. The invention provides an optical waveguide comprising a substrate, a core portion...
6785453 Dispersion shifted optical fiber  
A dispersion shifted optical fiber comprising a core and cladding provided at an outer periphery of the core, and having a refractive index profile in which the core is provided with a central core...
6785455 Dispersion compensation unit and method of producing the same  
A dispersion compensating fiber 1 is placed in the form of a coil or bundle within a housing 2 , and a filling material 3 having a viscosity of 0.01 Pa·s to 0.6 Pa·s at normal temperature...
6782175 Dispersion map for slope compensating fibers  
An optical transmission system is provided. The system includes a series of consecutive blocks of optical fiber. Each block of the system includes a first, second and third series of spans of...
6782172 Optical fiber, optical transmission line and dispersion compensating module  
Proposed are a dispersion compensating fiber and an optical transmission system that can, using a short length of the fiber, compensate the chromatic dispersion and the dispersion slope of a...
6782174 Method of repairing a slope-matched cable system and replacement cable portion for use therein  
A method of repairing a slope-matched cable system that leaves the net chromatic dispersion of the system nominally unchanged comprises removing a portion of the slope-matched cable system that is...
6782151 Raman amplifier, optical transmission system and optical fiber  
A Raman amplifier having a great Raman amplification gain is disclosed. An optical transmission system 1 is provided with an optical fiber 31 for Raman amplification and an optical multiplexer ...
6778748 Optical fiber, dispersion compensator using the same, and optical transmission system  
The present invention provides an optical fiber having a compensation function of the dispersion characteristic of an optical transmission line in S-band, and preferably has a filter function for...
6778747 Radially varying and azimuthally asymmetric optical waveguide fiber  
Disclosed is a single mode waveguide fiber and a method of making a single mode or multimode waveguide fiber which has an azimuthally and radially asymmetric core. This asymmetry provides...
6775449 Multimode optical fiber having reduced intermodal dispersion  
An optical fiber for use in optical energy transmission system has improved mode coupling in one embodiment thereof and both improved mode coupling and selective attenuation of unwanted modes in...
6775443 Tight buffered optical cables with release layers  
A tight buffered optical fiber having a protective layer generally surrounding the optical fiber, a release layer at least partially bonding to and generally surrounding the protective layer and a...
6775450 Micro-structured optical fibers  
A micro-structured optical fiber precursor 1 is made by size reducing a multiple core optical fiber having solid multiple cores or a multiple core optical fiber preform O having multiple solid...
6775428 Device having a light transmission device  
The invention provides a device having a light transmission device wherein a light-emitting element, a driving circuit for driving this light-emitting element, a light-receiving element...
6775447 All fiber low noise supercontinuum source  
An optical fiber suitable for generation of a supercontinuum spectrum when light pulses of femtosecond (10 −15 sec.) duration are launched at a certain wavelength into the fiber. The fiber...
6771866 Photocatalyst apparatus, method of manufacture thereof and photocatalyst reactor  
A photocatalyst apparatus includes a plurality of photocatalytic optical fibers, each having a photocatalytic clad on a solid or hollow core and a solid or hollow substrate having a surface for...
6771864 Optical fiber transmission line, optical cable, and optical transmission system  
The present invention relates to an optical fiber transmission line and the like comprising a structure for enabling repeating sections to become further longer. The optical fiber transmission line...
6768822 Chromatic dispersion compensation  
An optical dispersion compensation device includes a first optical compensation unit that applies non-linear dispersion compensation across a signal band, the first optical compensation unit being...
6768851 Optical fiber for ultra-high capacity transmission  
An optical fiber is described in which a core is surrounded by a cladding having a refractive index that varies periodically in the angular sense around the core. By appropriate design of the...
6768847 Dispersion compensating module and fiber for control of residual dispersion  
A dispersion compensating fiber and module are described for controlling residual dispersion in a dispersion compensated system. The dispersion compensating fiber is designed with dispersion curve...
6768838 Optical module  
An optical module for optically coupling an input side and an output side with each other through an optically functional portion inserted between the input side and the output side. At least one...
6768839 Tunable, polymeric core, fiber Bragg gratings  
Provided are polymeric or polymeric and glass optical fiber devices which have a tunable wavelength response in a polymeric fiber Bragg grating. An optical fiber is formed having a tubular cladding...
6768849 Systems and methods for fabricating varying waveguide optical fiber device  
Systems and methods are described for fabricating a varying-waveguide optical fiber. In one described method, a preform is fabricated having a core and at least one cladding region. The cladding...
6766078 Grating structure and optical devices  
An optical waveguide ( 1 ) has a grating structure ( 2 ) in which gratings of different orders are superimposed. When first and second order gratings are superimposed, input light is partially...
6766091 Polymeric optical conductors  
An optical cable, which is flame-retardant, and has excellent adhesion of the protective covering to the fiber cladding and uniform thickness of the fiber cladding, contains a polymer optical...
6766087 Nonlinear dispersion-shifted optical fiber, optical signal processing apparatus using said optical fiber and wavelength converter using said optical fiber  
Disclosed is a nonlinear dispersion-shifted optical fiber, wherein a charomatic dispersion at a wavelength of 1550 nm is equal to a set value required for optical signal processing utilizing a...
6766088 Optical fiber and method for making the same  
An optical fiber has a section of the first kind having a chromatic dispersion not less than a given positive value x and a negative chromatic dispersion slope at a given wavelength and a section...
6766089 Low-dispersion optical fiber and optical transmission system using the low-dispersion optical fiber  
A low-dispersion optical fiber provides both reduced chromatic dispersion in a used wavelength band and increased effective core area. The low-dispersion optical fiber is made by covering a center...
6763168 Optical fiber for in-line compensation of chromatic dispersion in an optical fiber with positive chromatic dispersion  
At a wavelength of 1 550 nm an optical fiber has a chromatic dispersion from −12 to −4 ps/(nm.km) and a ratio of chromatic dispersion to chromatic dispersion slope from 250 to 370 nm. Its index...
6760518 Fiber grating optical waveguide device  
The present invention relates to a fiber grating filter optical waveguide device, comprising an optical fiber with an optical filter, both consisting essentially of silica, whereby said optical...
6760525 Controlled dispersion optical fiber  
Disclosed is a dispersion controlled optical waveguide fiber, and telecommunication systems using such a waveguide fiber, in which the end to end total dispersion and total dispersion slope is...
6760526 Chalcogenide doping of oxide glasses  
The present invention relates to a glass article for use as an optical waveguide fiber and more particularly to an optical waveguide fiber, the core of which is doped with a chalcogenide element to...
6760528 Resin coated optical fiber  
A thermoplastic resin coated optical fiber having an outer diameter of 0.9 mm is formed by providing a coating layer around a reinforcing resin coated optical fiber having an outer diameter of 0.25...
6760527 Large effective area optical fiber  
An optical waveguide fiber having a relatively large effective area which exhibits low attenuation, low PMD and low microbending sensitivity. A step-index refractive index profile is advantageously...
6760356 Application of Yb:YAG short pulse laser system  
A diode pumped, high power (at least 20W), short pulse (up to 2 ps), chirped pulse amplified laser using Yb:YAG as the gain material is employed for material processing. Yb:YAG is used as the gain...
6757456 System for selecting an appropriate optical fiber type for a communication network  
An optical fiber selection system automatically recommends an appropriate optical fiber type for a communication network, based on input from a user. In one embodiment, the system includes a user...
6757462 Bragg grating filter optical waveguide device  
The present invention relates to a Bragg grating filter optical waveguide device, comprising an optical fiber provided with a Bragg grating region which is externally strained to alter the range of...
6757468 Dispersion compensation optical fiber and optical transmission line using same  
A Dispersion Compensation (DC) fiber and transmission line including the same. The DC fiber has a refractive index profile having a central core with a core delta (Δ 1 ) value greater than 1.5%, a...
6754420 Optical fiber transmission line  
An optical fiber transmission line for realizing satisfactory long haul transmission characteristics using two kinds of optical fibers. The optical fiber transmission line includes a plurality of...
6754424 High dispersion zero waveguide fiber  
Disclosed is a single mode optical waveguide fiber designed for use in high performance telecommunication systems. The novel core profile design improves bending performance to provide enhanced...
6754421 Optical fiber and optical transmission line using the optical fiber  
An optical fiber for forming an optical transmission line suitable for the wavelength division multiplexing transmission by connecting to a positive dispersion optical fiber is provided. Outside a...
6754413 Optical multiplexer, demultiplexer and methods  
Methods and devices are provided for optical demultiplexing and optical multiplexing. An optical wavelength demultiplexer adapted to perform wavelength demultiplexing of an input optical signal...
6754416 Method for tensioning and positioning a fiber optic cable  
A method for tensioning and positioning a fiber optic cable includes providing and securing a first portion of the fiber optic cable in a first support with a first clamp. A second portion of the...
6751390 Dispersion and dispersion slope compensating fiber and optical transmission system utilizing same  
A dispersion and dispersion slope compensating optical fiber includes a segmented core and a cladding layer wherein the refractive index profile is selected to provide a dispersion having a maximum...
6751387 Microporous glass waveguides doped with selected materials  
The present invention concerns waveguides made from porous glass which have been doped with certain selected materials which exhibit optical properties. In the context of the invention, the...