Described herein are coated optical fibers including an optical fiber portion, wherein the optical fiber portion includes a glass core and cladding section that is configured to possesses certain mode-field diameters and effective areas, and a coating portion including a primary and secondary coating, wherein the primary coating is the cured product of a composition that possesses specified liquid glass transition temperatures, such as below −82° C., and/or a viscosity ratios, such as between 25° C. and 85° C., of less than 13.9. Also described are radiation curable coating compositions possessing reduced thermal sensitivity, methods of coating such radiation curable coating compositions to form coated optical fibers, and optical fiber cables comprising the coated optical fibers and/or radiation curable coating compositions elsewhere described.

Bismuth (Bi) doped optical fibers (BiDF) and Bi-doped fiber amplifiers (BiDFA) are shown and described. The BiDF comprises a gain band and an auxiliary band. The gain band has a first center wavelength (λ1) and a first six decibel (6 dB) gain bandwidth. The auxiliary band has a second center wavelength (λ2), with λ2>λ1. The system further comprises a signal source and a pump source that are optically coupled to the BiDF. The signal source provides an optical signal at λ1, while the pump source provides pump light at a pump wavelength (λ3).

A method for strengthening an edge of a glass laminate including a glass core layer positioned between a first glass clad layer and a second glass clad layer may include forming a channel in the edge of the glass laminate. Sidewalls of the channel may be formed from the first glass clad layer and the second glass clad layer. Glass filler material having a filler coefficient of thermal expansion greater than a core coefficient of thermal expansion may be positioned in the channel. The glass filler material and the sidewalls of the channel may be fused to the second glass clad layer thereby forming an edge cap over the channel. The edge of the glass laminate is under compressive stress after the glass filler material is enclosed in the channel.

A high-modulus glass fiber composition includes the following components with corresponding amounts by weight percentage: 43-58% of SiO.sub.2, 15.5-23% of Al.sub.2O.sub.3, 8-18% of MgO, ≥25% of Al.sub.2O.sub.3+MgO, 0.1-7.5% of CaO, 7.1-22% of Y.sub.2O.sub.3, ≥16.5% of MgO+Y.sub.2O.sub.3, 0.01-5% of TiO.sub.2, 0.01-1.5% of Fe.sub.2O.sub.3, 0.01-2% of Na.sub.2O, 0-1.5% of K.sub.2O, 0-0.9% of Li.sub.2O, 0-4% of SrO, and 0-5% of La.sub.2O.sub.3+CeO.sub.2.

Provided is a glass composition for glass fiber allowing spinning to be stably performed without mixing of red foreign substances into glass fibers. The glass composition for glass fiber includes, in relation to the total amount thereof, SiO.sub.2 in a content falling within a range from 57.0 to 60.0% by mass, Al.sub.2O.sub.3 in a content falling within a range from 17.5 to 20.0% by mass, MgO in a content falling within a range from 8.5 to 12.0% by mass, CaO in a content falling within a range from 10.0 to 13.0% by mass and B.sub.2O.sub.3 in a content falling within a range from 0.5 to 1.5% by mass, the total content of SiO.sub.2, Al.sub.2O.sub.3, MgO and CaO being 98.0% by mass or more.

An optical fiber having a core comprising silica and greater than 1.5 wt % chlorine and less than 0.5 wt % F, said core having a refractive index Δ.sub.1MAX, and an inner cladding region having refractive index Δ.sub.2MIN surrounding the core, where Δ.sub.1MAX>Δ.sub.2MIN.

Laser waveguides, methods and systems for forming a laser waveguide are provided. The waveguide includes an inner cladding layer surrounding a central axis and a glass core surrounding and located outside of the inner cladding layer. The glass core includes a laser-active material. The waveguide includes an outer cladding layer surrounding and located outside of the glass core. The inner cladding, outer cladding and/or core may surround a hollow central channel or bore and may be annular in shape.

An optical boroaluminate glass article comprises: from greater than or equal to 10.0 mol % to less than or equal to 30.0 mol % Al.sub.2O.sub.3; from greater than or equal to 10.0 mol % to less than or equal to 55.0 mol % CaO; from greater than or equal to 10.0 mol % to less than or equal to 25.0 mol % B.sub.2O.sub.3; from greater than or equal to 0.0 mol % to less than or equal to 30.0 mol % SiO.sub.2; and from greater than or equal to 1.0 mol % to less than or equal to 20.0 mol % refractive index raising components. The optical boroaluminate glass article has a refractive index of the glass article, measured at 589.3 nm, of greater than or equal to 1.62, and a density of less than or equal to 4.00 g/cm.sup.3.

A method of manufacturing a quartz glass fibre includes producing a quartz glass primary preform by modified chemical vapor deposition (MCVD) in a quartz glass substrate tube and inserting the quartz glass primary preform into a glass jacketing tube. Defect-generating UV radiation is irridiated into the cross-sectional area of the glass jacketing tube while combining the quartz glass primary preform with the glass jacketing tube in the jacketing process to form a cladding layer to a secondary preform. A quartz glass fibre is pulled from the secondary preform.

The present invention is a low dielectric resin substrate, which is a composite including an annealed quartz glass cloth and an organic resin, where the annealed quartz glass cloth has a dielectric loss tangent of less than 0.0010 at 10 GHz, and tensile strength of 1.0 N/25 mm or more per cloth weight (g/m.sup.2). This provides a resin substrate that includes a quartz glass cloth which has a low dielectric loss tangent and which is also excellent in tensile strength.