Analysis and measurement of the OH absorption induced loss in a tapered single mode optical fiber

Author

Shin, Won-Yong ; Oh, Kyunghwan

Author_Institution

Dept. of Inf. & Commun., Kwangju Inst. of Sci. & Technol., South Korea

fYear

2002

fDate

24-24 May 2002

Firstpage

237

Abstract

Summary from only given. We report that the optical fiber transmission around 1.39 /spl mu/m is affected by rapid OH diffusion in tapering process, conventionally used in fabrication of fused fiber WDM devices. In tapering process, fiber is heated by a microtorch and is longitudinally elongated by a motorized translation system.

Keywords

combustion; diffusion; flames; free radicals; optical fibre couplers; optical fibre fabrication; 1.39 micron; OH; OH free heating source; automated fused fibre coupler fabrication system; elongation; external OH diffusion; flame; fused couplers; fused fiber WDM devices; insertion loss; longitudinally elongated; microtorch; motorized translation system; optical fiber tapers fabrication; optical fiber transmission; rapid OH diffusion; tapering process; Absorption; Electric variables measurement; Frequency measurement; Loss measurement; Optical fiber couplers; Optical fiber devices; Optical fiber losses; Optical fibers; Optical filters; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2002. CLEO '02. Technical Digest. Summaries of Papers Presented at the

Conference_Location

Long Beach, CA, USA

Print_ISBN

1-55752-706-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEO.2002.1033891

Filename

1033891