Method and apparatus for fabrication of polarization maintaining

Details Method and apparatus for fabrication of polarization maintaining Method and apparatus for fabrication of polarization maintaining

1991-12-09

1993-07-06

Lindsay, Robert L.

Glass manufacturing

Processes

Forming product or preform from molten glass

65 29, 65 42, 65 63, 65152, 65155, 65162, C03B 37023

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active

052249778

ABSTRACT:
A fiber optic polarization maintaining apparatus for use in fabrication of fused optical couplers, where the fused optical couplers include first and second optical fibers. The apparatus includes apparatus for holding the first and second optical fibers in a first predetermined alignment where the first and second fibers each include a stripped portion and where the stripped portions are held in contact along their length. Apparatus for heating the first and second optical fibers are located adjacent the holding apparatus wherein the heating apparatus is brushed across the length of the first and second fibers so as to oscillate across the fibers in an amplitude varied in an ever decreasing stepped manner until fusion of the fibers is complete.

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