Drawing of optical fiber with internal codrawn wire and conductive coating and electrooptic modulation demonstration

One hundred twenty meters of fiber with an internal codrawn wire and electrically conductive coating was successfully fabricated for the first time. The integration of the conductive coating and wire was all performed during the fiber draw stage, in a process that enabled arbitrarily long lengths of...

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Published in:IEEE photonics technology letters 2006-04, Vol.18 (8), p.914-916
Main Authors: Lee, K., Henry, P., Simon Fleming, Blows, J.L.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Coating
Coatings
Devices
Electric fields
Electric wire
Electrically conductive
Electrooptic modulators
Fiber fabrication
Fiber nonlinear optics
Fibers
Meters
nonlinear fibers
Nonlinear optical devices
Nonlinear optics
Optical fiber devices
Optical fibers
Optical modulation
Optical switches
poling
Wire
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Summary:One hundred twenty meters of fiber with an internal codrawn wire and electrically conductive coating was successfully fabricated for the first time. The integration of the conductive coating and wire was all performed during the fiber draw stage, in a process that enabled arbitrarily long lengths of fiber to be made. The wire combined with the conductive coating enables a strong electric field to be formed across the optical core. Such a fiber is ideal for thermally poling long lengths and for nonlinear device applications such as optical switches and modulators.
ISSN:1041-1135
1941-0174
DOI:10.1109/LPT.2006.872290