Abstract: Optical fiber lines of a PON system are monitored with a remote fiber test system having a branch-type optical fiber line constituting the PON system and test equipment connected to the branch-type optical fiber line. The test equipment includes a light source, an optical splitter, a detecting part, and a control unit. The light source outputs light having an optical coherence function of a comb shape that is formed as a result of the optical frequency being modulated by a modulation signal of period p. The optical splitter receives light output from the light source and splits the light into probe light and reference light. The detecting part detects interference light that occurs from mutual interference between the reference light and reflected light. Upon detection of the interference light, the detecting part converts the interference light into an electrical signal.

Abstract: A laser processing apparatus 1 includes a processing light source 3 emitting processing light; an observation light emitting unit 4 emitting observation light; optical fibers 19 conducting light having a plurality of wavelengths generated at an electronic component 2; a detecting unit 5 detecting the light conducted by the optical fibers 19; and a control unit 31 controlling a light emitting state of the processing light emitting unit 3. The optical fibers 19 are categorized into four groups, and disposed so as to surround an optical fiber 18 conducting the processing light. The optical fibers 19 categorized into the four groups are capable of conducting the observation light to the electronic component 2 every group.

Abstract: An optical line monitoring apparatus and optical line monitoring system which can measure a reflectance distribution in an optical line with a high spatial resolution in a short time are provided. An optical line monitoring apparatus 14A provided in a station 10A comprises an OCDR measurement section 15 for carrying out OCDR measurement, an OTDR measurement section 16 for carrying out OTDR measurement, an optical switch 13 for selectively connecting one of the OCDR measurement section 15 and OTDR measurement section 16 to the optical coupler 12, a control section 17, and a storage device 18. The control section 17 performs a predetermined arithmetic operation according to an OCDR measurement result acquired by causing the OCDR measurement section 15 to carry out the OCDR measurement and an OTDR measurement result acquired by causing the OTDR measurement section 16 to carry out the OTDR measurement.

Abstract: Optical fiber lines of a PON system can be monitored with the remote fiber test system having a practical structure, comprising a branch-type optical fiber line constituting the PON system and test equipment connected to the branch-type optical fiber line on the central office side. The test equipment comprises a light source, an optical splitter, a detecting part, and a control unit. The light source outputs light having an optical coherence function of a comb shape that is formed as a result of the optical frequency being modulated by a modulation signal of period p. The optical splitter receives light output from the light source and splits the light into probe light and reference light. The detecting part detects interference light that occurs from mutual interference between the reference light and reflected light arising while the probe light propagates through the branch-type optical fiber line.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an optical fiber, wherein PMD will not significantly increase even when an external factor, such as a lateral pressure, a bending and the like, is applied to the optical fiber. The optical fiber is imparted with a twist that is an elastic torsion with stress.

Abstract: An optical analyzer performing analysis excellent in spatial resolution and in invasion depth is provided.

Abstract: Brillouin scattered light is used to measure the distribution of elasticity and viscosity in a measurement object without contact and in a noninvasive and simpler manner. Measuring light emitted from a light source is directed from a light probe onto a measurement object, and scattered light is received by the light probe. A control computer analyzes the light spectrum of scattered light received by the light probe, calculates at least one parameter selected from the center frequency and the linewidth of the elastic wave scattered components as viscoelastic information, matches the viscoelastic information with the position of a target area in the measurement object, and outputs image information. The position information of the target area in the measurement object is acquired by photographing light spots of guide light with a camera provided to the light probe.

Abstract: An optical analyzer performing analysis excellent in spatial resolution and in invasion depth is provided.

Abstract: Brillouin scattered light is used to measure the distribution of elasticity and viscosity in a measurement object without contact and in a noninvasive and simpler manner. Measuring light emitted from a light source is directed from a light probe onto a measurement object, and scattered light is received by the light probe. A control computer analyzes the light spectrum of scattered light received by the light probe, calculates at least one parameter selected from the center frequency and the linewidth of the elastic wave scattered components as viscoelastic information, matches the viscoelastic information with the position of a target area in the measurement object, and outputs image information. The position information of the target area in the measurement object is acquired by photographing light spots of guide light with a camera provided to the light probe.

Abstract: An optical fiber and an optical fiber device, which can suppress generation of the stimulated Brillouin scattering while maintaining large nonlinearity. The fiber includes a central core which is made of SiO2 as a main component and contains Al2O3 at concentration of 15 wt % or more. The fiber is allowed to propagate only a fundamental mode and has an absolute value of chromatic dispersion of 5 ps/nm/km or less at a predetermined wavelength. The device includes the fiber having the above composition. The fiber guides first light and second light having different wavelengths to propagate therethrough such that the first light and the second light interact with each other by a nonlinear optical phenomenon during the propagation, thus causing the fiber to output the first light or the second light modulated by the nonlinear optical phenomenon or third light newly produced by the nonlinear optical phenomenon and having a different wavelength.

Abstract: An optical fiber has a section of the first kind having a chromatic dispersion not less than a given positive value x and a negative chromatic dispersion slope at a given wavelength and a section of the second kind has a chromatic dispersion not more than ?x and a positive chromatic dispersion slope at the same wavelength. Another optical fiber has a chromatic dispersion higher than a positive value x and a negative chromatic dispersion slope at a given wavelength band.

Abstract: An imaging system 1 comprises: an illumination light source unit 10 that emits an illumination light having a wavelength in a near-infrared range; an illumination optical system 20 that illuminates an observed object 90 with the illumination light emitted from the illumination light source unit 10; an imaging optical system 30 that guides as a physical body light the illumination light that has been illuminated by the illumination optical system 20 onto the observed object 90 and has been scattered, reflected, or refracted thereby; and an imaging unit 40 that has an imaging sensitivity in a wavelength band of a near-infrared range, receives the physical body light arrived after being guided by the imaging optical system 30, and images the image of the observed object 90. The imaging unit 40 receives the physical body light after the light has passed through water and hemoglobin.

Abstract: An optical fiber not only can suppress SBS but also can be produced easily. The optical fiber 1 comprises an optical core region 10 including the center axis and an optical cladding region 14 surrounding the optical core region 10. The optical core region 10 is composed of a first region 11, a second region 12, and a third region 13 in this order from the inside. The third region 13, which is a part of the optical core region 10, is a ring-shaped acoustic core region. The propagation mode of an acoustic wave can be localized in the third region 13.

Abstract: An optical fiber and an optical fiber device, which can suppress generation of the stimulated Brillouin scattering while maintaining large nonlinearity. The fiber includes a central core which is made of SiO2 as a main component and contains Al2O3 at concentration of 15 wt % or more. The fiber is allowed to propagate only a fundamental mode and has an absolute value of chromatic dispersion of 5 ps/nm/km or less at a predetermined wavelength. The device includes the fiber having the above composition. The fiber guides first light and second light having different wavelengths to propagate therethrough such that the first light and the second light interact with each other by a nonlinear optical phenomenon during the propagation, thus causing the fiber to output the first light or the second light modulated by the nonlinear optical phenomenon or third light newly produced by the nonlinear optical phenomenon and having a different wavelength.

Abstract: An optical fiber capable of effectively suppressing stimulated Brillouin scattering, and an optical module including the fiber are provided. The fiber includes a core region, and a cladding region having a refractive index lower than that of the core region and an acoustic velocity higher than that of the core region. An effective area of the fiber is 5?2 or less at at least one light wavelength ?. The ratio ?A/?O of an acoustic relative refractive index ratio ?A and an optical relative refractive index ratio ?O is 25 or more. The optical module includes the optical fiber, a light source that outputs first light having a wavelength ?1, and a multiplexer that receives the first light and second light having a wavelength ?2 and that multiplexes and couples the first light and the second light to the optical fiber.

Abstract: An analysis device is capable of identifying each constituent element of a measurement object. The analysis device includes a broadband light generation source configured and arranged to generate broadband light having a bandwidth of 300 nm or greater in a wavelength band of 750 nm to 2,500 nm in substantially a single spatial mode, a radiating optical system configured and arranged to radiate the broadband light to an irradiation region of a measurement object, a capturing optical system configured and arranged to capture object light emitted from the irradiation region, a time-resolved spectroscope configured and arranged to receive the object light and calculating a temporal intensity variation for each wavelength component of the object light, and an analysis unit configured and arranged to analyze a component of the measurement object on the basis of the temporal intensity variation.

Abstract: An optical fiber capable of effectively suppressing stimulated Brillouin scattering, and an optical module including the fiber are provided. The fiber includes a core region, and a cladding region having a refractive index lower than that of the core region and an acoustic velocity higher than that of the core region. An effective area of the fiber is 5?2 or less at at least one light wavelength ?. The ratio ?A/?O of an acoustic relative refractive index ratio ?A and an optical relative refractive index ratio ?O is 25 or more. The optical module includes the optical fiber, a light source that outputs first light having a wavelength ?1, and a multiplexer that receives the first light and second light having a wavelength ?2 and that multiplexes and couples the first light and the second light to the optical fiber.

Abstract: The present invention discloses an optical transmission line constructing method comprising the steps of connecting a plurality of optical fibers differing from each other in terms of a transmission characteristic; making inspection light incident on an entrance end of the connected plurality of optical fibers; detecting, on the entrance end side, respective return light components of the inspection light occurring at individual positions of the plurality of optical fibers in its longitudinal direction; evaluating a characteristic information distribution of return light in the longitudinal direction of the plurality of optical fibers; and constructing an optical transmission line according to a result of the evaluation.

Abstract: An optical fiber not only can suppress SBS but also can be produced easily. The optical fiber 1 comprises an optical core region 10 including the center axis and an optical cladding region 14 surrounding the optical core region 10. The optical core region 10 is composed of a first region 11, a second region 12, and a third region 13 in this order from the inside. The third region 13, which is a part of the optical core region 10, is a ring-shaped acoustic core region. The propagation mode of an acoustic wave can be localized in the third region 13.

Abstract: An optical fiber suitable for use in a single fiber or multifiber optical connector or array is structured with a core region and a cladding region surrounding the core region, and exhibits a bending loss of a fundamental mode of the fiber at a wavelength ? is lower than 0.1 dB/m at a diameter of 15 mm, a mode-field diameter of the fundamental mode at an end of the fiber at the wavelength ? is between 8.0 ?m and 50 ?, and a bending loss of a first higher-order mode at the wavelength ? is higher than 1 dB/m at a diameter of 30 mm. The fiber may be multistructured, wherein the cladding region comprises a main medium and a plurality of sub medium regions therein to form a spatially uniform average refractive index.