604results about "Multicore optical fibre" patented technology

A medical device operating as a stylet is described. The medical device can include an insulating layer (or sheath) encapsulating both a multi-core optical fiber and a conductive medium. The optical fiber can include a cladding and a plurality of core fibers spatially arranged within the cladding. Each of the core fibers can include a plurality of sensors distributed along a longitudinal length of that corresponding core fiber and each of these sensors can be configured to: (i) reflect a light signal of a different spectral width based on received incident light, and (ii) change a characteristic of the reflected light signal for use in determining a physical state of the multi-core optical fiber. The conductive medium can provide a pathway for electrical signals detected at a distal portion of the conductive medium. The conductive medium may be concentric to the cladding, but separate and adjust thereto.

A system and method directed to detecting placement of a medical device within a patient body, the system including a medical device including a multi-core optical fiber having a plurality of core fibers. Each of the plurality of core fibers can include a plurality of sensors each configured to reflect a light signal having an altered characteristic due to strain experienced by the multi-core optical fiber. The system can further include logic configured to determine a 3D shape of the medical device in accordance with the strain of the optical fiber. The logic can be configured to define a reference plane for the 3D shape and render an image of the 3D shape on a display of the system in accordance with the reference plane.

A multicore optical fiber (MCF) according to one embodiment of the present invention enables stable core identification. The MCF comprises a glass optical fiber and a resin coating. The glass optical fiber includes a plurality of cores, a marker, and cladding. On a cross-section of the MCF, the arrangement of the centers of the cores and the center of the marker has no rotational symmetry with respect to the center of the cross-section. The cladding includes an inner cladding that surrounds the cores and the marker, and an outer cladding that is provided on the outer peripheral surface of the inner cladding and has a refractive index higher than that of the inner cladding.

The invention discloses a multi-core all-solid-state anti-resonance optical fiber and a multi-wavelength optical fiber laser system. The multi-core all-solid-state anti-resonance optical fiber comprises an inner cladding area, at least two fiber core structures arranged in the inner cladding area and an outer cladding area or a coating layer area arranged on the periphery of the inner cladding area. Each fiber core structure comprises a fiber core area and an anti-resonance area, the anti-resonance area is composed of at least one capillary tube group, each capillary tube group comprises a plurality of capillary tubes, and the capillary tubes in each capillary tube group are annularly arranged on the periphery of the fiber core area by taking the fiber core area as the center; the optical fiber matrixes filled in the capillaries in the anti-resonance area are the same, and the refractive index of the anti-resonance area is n3gt; the refractive index n2 of the inner cladding region is equal to the refractive index n1gt of the fiber core region; and the refractive index of the outer cladding region or the coating layer region is n4. The optical fiber provided by the invention is beneficial to high-density integration of a fiber core structure in a multi-core optical fiber, has a large mode field area and a high-order mode rejection ratio, and gives consideration to both high power and high light beam quality.

A system, apparatus and method directed to detecting malposition of a medical device within a vessel of a patient, such as an Azygos vein. The medical device can include a multi-core optical fiber including a plurality of core fibers, where each of the plurality of core fibers includes a plurality of sensors is configured to reflect a light signal based on received incident light, and change a characteristic of the reflected light signal for use in determining a physical state of the multi-core optical fiber. The system can include a console having non-transitory computer-readable medium storing logic that, when executed, causes operations of providing a broadband incident light signal to the multi-core optical fiber, receiving reflected light signals, processing the reflected light signals, and determining whether the medical device has entered the Azygos vein of the patient based on the reflected light signals.

Provided is a multi-core fiber having an end surface whose inclination direction is appropriately set in consideration of connection. In a multi-core fiber (MF), inclination directions (v1, v2) of a first end surface (σ1) and a second end surface (σ2) are set so that, in a case where the first end surface (σ1) and the second end surface (σ2) are brought into contact with each other so as to minimize an angle made by an extending direction of cores (a1 to an) in the first end surface (σ1) and an extending direction of cores (a1 to an) in the second end surface (σ2), each of the cores (a1 to an) in the first end surface (σ1) at least partially overlaps any of the cores (a1 to an) in the second end surface (σ2).

A system, apparatus and method directed to placing a medical device into a body of a patient, including performing operations of providing a broadband incident light signal to a plurality of core fibers of a multi-core optical fiber, receiving reflected light signals of different wavelengths, and processing the reflected light signals associated with the plurality of core fibers to determine (i) a physical state of the multi-core optical fiber relating to the medical device including the multi-core optical fiber, and (ii) an orientation of the multi-core optical fiber relative to a reference frame of the body. Additional operations include generating a display illustrating the physical state of the multi-core optical fiber based at least on the orientation determined during processing of the reflected light. Typically, the display is a two-dimensional representation of the multi-core optical fiber in accordance with the determined orientation.

The invention discloses an isomorphic four-core hollow-core anti-resonance optical fiber for an ultraviolet band photoetching process, which belongs to the technical field of optical fiber communication, and comprises an outer cladding and four isomorphic hollow-core light guide units which are arranged in the outer cladding and are distributed at equal intervals in a rectangular array manner, anti-resonance structures are symmetrically arranged in each isomorphic hollow-core light guide unit in the vertical direction and the horizontal direction, and the anti-resonance structures enclose to form an air fiber core; the anti-resonance structure is formed by nesting a plurality of layers of circular and elliptical anti-resonance tubes. And the four isomorphic hollow-core light guide units respectively work in the wavelength ranges of 280 to 380 nm, 220 to 280 nm, 160 to 220 nm and 100 to 160 nm. The isomorphic four-core hollow-core anti-resonance optical fiber structure provided by the invention has a multi-channel transmission capability, and is suitable for multi-beam parallel transmission in a high-resolution ultraviolet lithography system.

An MCF includes a plurality of cores each extending in a direction along a central axis and a cladding covering each of the plurality of cores. The cladding includes a low refractive index barrier. The low refractive index barrier includes an alkali metal element. A relative refractive index of the low refractive index barrier is lower than an average value of a relative refractive indices of the cladding overall. The core interval is set such that a total sum of the power coupling coefficients between a specific core among the plurality of cores and each of all remaining cores is 2.3×10−4 / km or less.

An antiresonant hollow core optical fibre (30) comprises: an outer jacket (12); cladding capillaries comprising a plurality of primary capillaries (14) which are each bonded to a surface of a cavity (34) within the outer jacket (12); and at least two hollow cores (18a,18b), each hollow core (18a,18b) formed by a void defined within a ring comprising a maximum of four primary capillaries, each primary capillary (14) of the ring being spaced apart from adjacent primary capillaries (14) around the ring.

A multicore fiber cable fanout device configured to connect a multicore fiber (MCF) cable comprising M MCFs having N cores with M×N single core fiber (SCP) pigtails is provided. The fanout device can include a housing enclosure and M MCF-to-SCF fanouts within the housing enclosure. The M×N SCF pigtails can be grouped in M×N / K SCF groups containing K SCF pigtails.

An optical fiber includes multiple optical cores configured in the fiber including a set of primary cores and an auxiliary core. An interferometric measurement system uses measurements from the multiple primary cores to predict a response from the auxiliary core. The predicted auxiliary core response is compared with the actual auxiliary core response to determine if they differ by more than a predetermined amount, in which case the measurements from the multiple primary cores may be deemed unreliable.

The invention provides a multi-core optical fiber, a parallel optical transmission optical module and an optical interconnection system, which can solve the problem of high operation and maintenance cost caused by coexistence of PSM and WDM optical modules and non-uniform optical module interface and optical fiber wiring in the prior art, the multi-core optical fiber comprises a multi-core optical fiber, the size of a central fiber core is the same as that of a single-mode optical fiber, and the optical interconnection system comprises a single-mode optical fiber and a single-mode optical fiber. The wavelength division multiplexing module is used for transmitting wavelength division multiplexing optical signals; the plurality of peripheral fiber cores are arranged around the central fiber core and are used for transmitting multiple paths of parallel optical signals; an optical interface of the parallel optical transmission optical module is connected with a peripheral fiber core of the multi-core optical fiber, and the parallel optical transmission optical module is used for transmitting multiple paths of parallel optical signals through the peripheral fiber core; the wavelength division multiplexing optical module is provided with a single-channel optical interface, and the single-channel optical interface is connected with the central fiber core of the multi-core optical fiber and used for transmitting wavelength division multiplexing optical signals through the central fiber core.

The invention provides a multi-point distributed temperature detection method and system based on a multi-core optical fiber structure. Wherein grating array etching processing is carried out on at least three fiber cores to form a specific reflection wavelength interval; when an external light source is incident, the fiber core grating structures reflect optical signals with corresponding wavelengths to generate reflected optical signals with different wavebands; the method comprises the following steps: dividing a reflected light signal channel through a wavelength branching device, generating independent channel signals of each fiber core, and simultaneously carrying out time sequence separation on multi-grating signals in the same fiber core to obtain reflected signals in discrete time sequence distribution; combining the independent channel signal with the discrete reflection signal, performing interference comparison with the fixed wavelength reference optical signal, generating a phase difference interference signal reflecting wavelength shift, and analyzing the wavelength shift to obtain temperature-related wavelength shift data; and through analysis and stress error elimination under deformation constraint, outputting a temperature detection result. According to the technical scheme provided by the invention, the accuracy of distributed temperature detection is improved.

The invention concerns an apparatus and its use for laser welding. A laser welding apparatus comprise at least one first laser device, each providing at least one first optical feed fiber with a first laser beam; at least one second laser device, each providing at least one second optical feed fiber with a second laser beam; means for generating a composite laser beam comprising a first output laser beam and a second output laser beam for welding a workpiece; wherein the first output laser beam has a circular cross-section and the second output laser beam has an annular shape concentric to the first output laser beam. The second laser device is a fiber laser device or a fiber-coupled laser device. The apparatus is configured to form the second output laser beam at least on the basis of the second laser beam, and the second output laser beam comprises a first wavelength and a second wavelength having difference of at least 10 nanometers, or the second output laser beam has spectrum width of least 10 nanometers.

The invention relates to the technical field of seismic exploration equipment, in particular to an optical fiber signal transmission seismic cable for seismic exploration. A power line, a twisted-pair shielding signal line and an optical fiber beam tube are wrapped outside the high-pressure plastic composite hose in a cabling mode, and the power line, the twisted-pair shielding signal line and the optical fiber beam tube jointly form a cable core structure. An outer layer non-woven fabric is wrapped outside the cable core structure, a polyurethane inner sheath is extruded outside the outer layer non-woven fabric, an armor layer is wrapped outside the polyurethane inner sheath, and a polymer polyethylene sheath is extruded outside the armor layer. According to the high-pressure plastic composite hose, through the design of the double reinforcing layers of the Kevlar aramid fibers and the polyester fibers, the strength and bursting pressure of the central air pipe are remarkably improved, and the high-pressure plastic composite hose can better adapt to the complex working environment; the cable core structure adopts composite optical fiber analog signal transmission to replace a traditional digital signal seismic cable, so that the quality and efficiency of signal transmission are improved; and the armor layer adopts a double-layer steel wire armor structure, so that the overall mechanical strength and tensile property of the cable are improved.

A catheter placement system for placing a catheter, the system includes a stylet with an optical fiber extending therethrough, the stylet body extending between a proximal end and a distal tip. A console, equipped with optical logic, delivers broadband incidence light to the optical fiber and receives reflected light signals to determine positional information about the stylet body. The stylet body is configured to be separable at a point between the proximal end and distal tip to allow a catheter to be advanced over a distal portion of the stylet body. The distal portion is configured to be reattached to the proximal portion to reconfirm the position of the stylet body distal tip prior to removal of the stylet from the catheter. The system further includes a severing device that is easy to actuate and ensures a clean, perpendicular cut to facilitate reconnection between the proximal and distal portions.

The invention discloses a novel intermediate infrared double-core photonic crystal fiber polarization beam splitter based on aluminum wire filling, particularly relates to the technical field of photonic crystal fiber polarization beam splitters, and solves the technical problem that in the prior art, a compact photonic crystal fiber polarization beam splitter with a high extinction ratio and an ultra wide band in an intermediate infrared band is still scarce. According to the technical scheme, the optical fiber comprises two fiber cores and a cladding, wherein a cladding area is distributed in a hexagonal lattice mode; a plurality of circular air holes and two large circular filling holes are formed in the fiber core area, the distance between every two adjacent air holes is the same, the fiber core area comprises four small circular air holes and a central air hole, and the fiber cores are arranged in parallel and symmetrically distributed on the two sides of the central air hole. The As2S3 glass with high refractive index is used as a substrate material, aluminum is used as a metal filler, and the shortest length of 160 microns, the maximum extinction ratio of-72.1 dB and the operation bandwidth of 1020 nm are obtained at the mid-infrared band with the wavelength of 3.3 microns.

The invention discloses a multi-core optical fiber amplifier with a large core-to-cladding ratio and a gain method. The multi-core optical fiber amplifier is characterized by comprising a multi-core optical fiber formed by a plurality of independent rare earth-doped fiber cores and a cladding structure located on the outer side of the multi-core optical fiber, the cladding structure is internally provided with at least one layer of low-refractive-index isolation region which is used for remarkably compressing the effective cladding area of pumping propagation and improving the capturing efficiency of the whole pumping energy, and the ratio of the total cross sectional area of the multi-core optical fiber to the effective cladding area is not less than 0.1. The low-refractive-index isolating layer is embedded in a conventional cladding structure, so that a pump light propagation area can be effectively compressed on an optical path, the relative proportion of the fiber core in the cross section is increased, the proportion (CCAR is larger than or equal to 0.1) of the total area of the fiber core to the cladding area is remarkably increased, and therefore the pump capture efficiency is improved.

The invention discloses an ultra-wideband heterogeneous five-core anti-resonance optical fiber for transmission from ultraviolet to intermediate infrared, and belongs to the technical field of optical fiber communication. The heterogeneous five-core anti-resonance optical fiber sequentially comprises a perfect matching layer, an outer cladding layer, a first light guide unit, a second light guide unit, a third light guide unit, a fourth light guide unit and a fifth light guide unit from outside to inside along the fiber diameter, wherein the first light guide unit, the second light guide unit, the third light guide unit, the fourth light guide unit and the fifth light guide unit are arranged in the outer cladding layer. A plurality of nesting tube assemblies and gap tube assemblies with the same or different structures are arranged in each light guide unit in the circumferential direction at equal intervals, and a central air fiber core area, a left upper air fiber core area, a right lower air fiber core area, a right upper air fiber core area and a left lower air fiber core area are defined by the assemblies and work at the wave bands of 0.15-2.0 m, 2.0-3.0 m, 3.0-4.0 m, 4.0-6.0 m and 6.0-7.0 m correspondingly. And all the components show extremely low restrictive loss, dispersion close to zero and a relatively low nonlinear coefficient.

A system and method directed to detecting placement of a medical device within a patient body, the system including a medical device including an optical fiber having core fibers. Each of the one or more core fibers can include a plurality of sensors each configured to reflect a light signal having an altered characteristic due to strain experienced by the optical fiber. The system can further include logic configured to determine a 3D shape of the medical device in accordance with the strain of the optical fiber. The logic can be configured to define a reference plane for the 3D shape and render an image of the 3D shape on a display of the system in accordance with the reference plane.

Provided are an optical fiber, a ribbon optical fiber, and a method for manufacturing an optical fiber, whereby it is possible to align an optical fiber having directivity with respect to the rotational direction with high precision. An optical fiber is provided with: a fiber which includes at least one core and a cladding covering the core, and which extends in the longitudinal direction; a primary resin layer covering the outer periphery of the fiber; and a secondary resin layer covering the outer periphery of the primary resin layer. The fibers are directional with respect to a rotation direction about the longitudinal direction as an axis. The primary resin layer includes, in the longitudinal direction, a plurality of first regions having a first Young's modulus and a plurality of second regions having a second Young's modulus, the second Young's modulus being higher than the first Young's modulus.

A three-dimensional optical device (100) for coupling light from a single-core input fiber into a plurality of separate fiber cores of a multicore output fiber is disclosed. The optical device is formed in a photopolymer material and comprises an input waveguide (110), a plurality of output waveguides (130a-d), and a non-planar multimode interference section (120) for splitting light of a first mode (210) at a first end face (221) of the MMI section into a plurality of second modes (230a-d) at a second end face (222) of the MMI section. The plurality of second modes comprises a central mode (230a) and a plurality of peripheral modes (230b-d). Each output waveguide has a proximal end (131) separately connected to the second end face of the MMI section. A mode field diameter associated with the input waveguide and output waveguides is smaller at the proximal end than at the distal end. A distance between adjacent output waveguides is smaller at the proximal ends.

An optical fiber includes a fiber, a primary resin layer and a second resin layer. The fiber includes at least one core and a cladding covering the core, and extends in a longitudinal direction. The primary resin layer covers an outer circumference of the fiber. The secondary resin layer covers an outer circumference of the primary resin layer. The fiber has an orientation with respect to a rotation direction about the longitudinal direction. The primary resin layer includes, in the longitudinal direction, a plurality of first regions each having a first Young's modulus and a plurality of second regions each having a second Young's modulus higher than the first Young's modulus.

A system of aligning concatenated sections of multicore optical fiber incorporates the capability of intentionally changing core assignments as part of the azimuthal alignment process. The intentional changing of core assignments, referred to as offset clocking, compensates for differences in properties of the individual core regions in a way that reduces variations between the spatial channels supported in the transmission system. The offset clocking technique can be used, e.g., to improve the attenuation (or other selected properties of the propagating signals). The offset clocking technique may be used to step through sequential changes core assignments at one or more splice locations (passive clocking) or identify a particular pairing of cores from one fiber section to the next (e.g., “good quality” core assigned to a “poor quality” signal exiting the first section) and rotate the fiber sections with respect to each other to achieve this particular core assignment.

The invention relates to thermal expansion-balanced transverse Anderson localization optical waveguides that have reduced bowing. The optical waveguide is formed of a fiber bundle comprising at least two distinct structural elements. The low curvature of the waveguide is achieved by a net CTE modulus being close to zero, which is achieved by relocating some of the structural elements of the fiber bundle to a different quadrant of the waveguide cross-section.

A filtering unit for an optical communication system includes an optical band-pass filter that narrows pulses of modulated light emitted by an array of light sources in the communication system. The filtering unit can be included in an optical transmitter that includes the array of light sources, and a controller that receives data from a transmitting computer system and encodes and transmits it by modulating the visible light output by the array of light sources. The filtering unit can also be included in an optical receiver unit that includes a photodetector array to receive the modulated visible light; and a controller to receive the output of the photodetectors; decode data from the received output, and provide the decoded data to a receiving computer system.

In an optical combiner, deformation in the cross section of a predetermined first optical fiber is reduced more than in conventional optical combiners. The optical combiner (10) includes: an optical fiber bundle (11) formed by a plurality of first optical fibers (111 to 117); and a second optical fiber (12) having a diameter equal to or larger than the diameter of the optical fiber bundle (11). The plurality of first optical fibers (111 to 117) include a predetermined first optical fiber (117) and the other first optical fibers (111 to 116), the predetermined first optical fiber (117) being composed of one or more materials having higher softening temperatures than one or more materials for the other first optical fibers (111 to 116).

A multi-core fiber includes a cladding, cores extending in an extending direction inside the cladding, a marker inside the cladding, and an end surface inclined in an inclined direction that is not orthogonal to the extending direction. The cores at the end surface are line-symmetrically arranged with respect to a virtual axis orthogonal to the inclination direction. The virtual axis virtually divides the end surface into a first area and a second area. The cores include a first core disposed farthest from the virtual axis in the first area and a second core disposed farthest from the virtual axis in the second area. A center of the marker at the end surface is disposed in an area between a straight line, passing through the first core, parallel to the virtual axis and a straight line, passing through the second core, parallel to the virtual axis.

To provide a favorable microstructured fiber optic oscillator and waveguide for a fiber scanner.SOLUTION: Described are optical fibers and scanning fiber displays comprising the optical fibers. The disclosed optical fibers include a plurality of mass adjustment regions, such as gas-filled regions, positioned between a central waveguiding element and an outer periphery for reducing the mass of the optical fiber compared to an optical fiber lacking the plurality of mass adjustment regions.SELECTED DRAWING: None