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Temperature stabilization of tapered fiber optic components

  • US 6,658,182 B1
  • Filed: 01/03/2002
  • Issued: 12/02/2003
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/29/1999
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A temperature stabilized tapered fiber optic component formed by fusion and/or tapering of optical fibers creating a taper profile with a mechanical phase dependence and a predetermined wavelength response, which component is strongly bonded at its extremities to a rigid substrate made of a material having a thermal expansion coefficient greater than quartz and producing a mechanical stress adapted to compensate for any modal phase shift of the component due to temperature variation by matching substrate elongation response to the component wavelength response, and/or wherein the mechanical phase dependence of the component is adjusted in relation to the substrate to provide a desired temperature compensating effect.

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