熔融拉锥型光纤耦合器实验研究_刘景琳.pdfVIP

37 1 ( ) V ol. 37 No1 1 2006 2 J. CENT. SOUTH UNIV. ( SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY) Feb. 2006 , , , ( 中南大学 机电工程学院, 湖南长沙, 4 10083) : 根据光纤的消逝场耦合模理论, 论述了熔融拉锥 光纤耦合器的工作原理; 以六轴 熔融拉锥机为实验平 台, 研究了熔融拉锥法制作3 dB 单模光纤耦合器的过程; 分析了拉伸速度与附加损耗及损耗偏差的关系, 发现拉 伸速度为150 Lm/ s 时, 耦合器的性能达到最优; 此外, 利用光学测试系统测试了光纤耦合器的插入损耗附加损 耗方向性与均匀性等光谱特性参数研究结果表明, 所得实验结果与耦合理论分析结果吻合, 说明该方法具有 制作过程简单附加损耗低环境稳定以及成本低廉等优点 : 光纤耦合器; 耦合模理论; 熔融拉锥法 : T N253 : A : 1672- 7207( 2006) 01- 0103- 05 Experimental stu y on fuse tapere optical fibre coupler L U J ing-lin, DUA N J-i an, M A O J ian-y u, ZH ONG Jue ( Schoo l of M echanical and Electrical Eng ineering , Cent ral So uth U niv ersity , Chang sha 4 10083, China) Abstract: T he coupling-mo de mechanism of fused biconical t aper w as discussed based on f iberps ev anescent f ield coupling theory. T he f acture pro cess of 3 dB single-m ode f iber coupler w as stud- ied by m aking use of t he exper im ent al platfo rm of a 6- ax is opt ical f iber co upler machine and the method of the f used biconical t aper. T he relatio n betw een draw ing speed and excess loss and t o l- erance of loss was analy zed. t is found that t he fiber coupler has goo d perfo rmance w hen the draw ing speed is 150 Lm/ s. T he perf ormance paramet ers of f iber coupler, such as insert at ion loss, ex cess loss, direct ivity and unif ormity, w ere t est ed using opt ical t est syst em . t is indicat ed by a l