Nanofiber manufacturing device and method for quantum computing
In an example, the present invention provides a method of designing and manufacturing a nanofiber device by pulling an optical fiber and a method of preserving the device in a storage chamber. For designing the device, the optical fiber characteristics are calculated numerically to shape the fiber with transmission adiabaticity and total length of the device. For the fiber processing, a pulling rig is provided. The rig enables a desirable pulling sequence to fabricate the numerically generated shape of the fiber. For preserving the device, a portable, small chamber-shaped container and storage method are provided.
1 . A method for manufacturing a nanofiber cable device, the method comprising:
providing a fiber optical cable;
determining one or more refractive indices of a core and a clad of the fiber optical cable;
determining a core diameter of the fiber optical cable;
determining an effective refractive indices by an analytical solution and/or numerical solution of Maxwell equations of a core-cladding model;
determining an adiabatic angle as a function of a diameter, ranging from 200 nm to a base fiber diameter;
providing a flame-movement trajectory based on a linear volume-transport model; and
generating motorized-stage trajectory.
2 . The method of claim 1 wherein the fiber optical cable comprises one or more refractive indices of the core and the clad of the fiber optical cable at a design wavelength of the fiber optical cable calculated by providing a pure silica clad and a core with dopants to control a refractive index to form an optical waveguide with a given numerical aperture value specified.
3 . The method of claim 2 further comprising determining one or more dispersions of a pure silica and one or more dopants are using a Sellmeier equation.
4 . The method of claim 1 further comprising calculating a core diameter of the fiber optical cable by comparing a specified mode field diameter and an analytically obtained propagation mode fields by using one or more calculated refractive indices.
5 . The method of claim 1 further comprising determining one or more effective indices for a fundamental HE 11 mode and a first excited HE 12 mode, the first excited HE 12 mode has a same symmetry as the HE 11 mode.
6 . The method of claim 5 wherein the HE 11 mode functions and the HE 12 mode functions of a fiber diameter are processed by assuming a ratio of a clad and one or more core diameters remains constant.
7 . The method of claim 6 wherein the processing comprises using an analytical solution for a core-clad step-index waveguide used with a refractive index of the core and the clad materials when the fiber core diameter is larger than the operating wavelength.
8 . The method of claim 6 wherein the processing comprises using an analytical solution for a core-clad step-index waveguide used with a refractive index of the clad material and vacuum when the fiber core diameter is smaller than an operating wavelength.
9 . The method of claim 6 wherein the processing comprises using a numerical solution for a core-clad-vacuum step-index three-layer waveguide used with a refractive index of the core and the clad materials and vacuum.
10 . The method of claim 1 further comprising generating an adiabatic angle Ω(r) as a function of a fiber radius is calculated by using a calculated refractive indices of a fundamental HE 11 mode (β 1 ) and a first excited HE 12 mode (β 2 ) as
Ω
(
r
)
=
r
(
β
1
-
β
2
)
2
π
,
where d is a fiber diameter.
11 . The method of claim 1 further comprising using a numerical model of a flame-brushing method is based on a linear volume-transport model.
12 . The method of claim 1 wherein the calculation of the flame-movement trajectory is performed with a linear programming method, or a numerical optimization algorithm whereupon in the linear programming method, constraint from a numerical model of a flame-brushing method is applied.
13 . The method of claim 1 wherein the flame-movement trajectory is converted to one or more moving sequences for each translation stage in a pulling rig.
14 . The method of claim 1 further comprising an optical fiber processing method, the method comprising:
removing a jacket of the fiber optical cable;
cleaning an exposed region of the fiber optical cable;
aligning the fiber optical cable to a pulling rig for pulling;
controlling one or more pulling sequences by using a motorized translation stage; and
performing one or more optical measurements during the pulling to evaluate the pulling.