摘要:
The present invention relates to an optical fiber coating method and an apparatus therefor which can form high quality coating layer on an optical fiber (12) by preventing non-concentricity of a coating resin (14) applied on the optical fiber (12) and admixing of bubble. The optical fiber coating apparatus according to the present invention includes at least one pair of an illumination light introducing window (39) and an optical fiber monitoring window (40) formed facing each other with the resin pool between in a side wall portion of a die holder (17), opposing a resin pool (27), a light source (41) opposing to the illumination light introducing window (39) and projecting an illumination light toward the center portion of the resin pool (27), an image pick-up device (42) opposing the optical fiber monitoring window (40) for monitoring at least a contact portion between the optical fiber (12) and the coating resin (14) and in the vicinity thereof, and coating condition modifying means for modifying a coating condition of the coating resin (14) with respect to the optical fiber (12) on the basis of the result of observation of the image pick-up device (42).
摘要:
There is provided a heating furnace comprising a furnace body, a cylindrical zone heater in the furnace body, a muffle tube installed through the furnace body for thermally treating a porous preform made of high purity quartz glass by moving the preform vertically therethrough and a partition means in the portion of the muffle tube projecting above the furnace body to divide an interior space of the muffle tube into an upper space and a lower one.
摘要:
Based on an intermediate 20A in which a cladding portion 22 is formed on the outer periphery of a core portion 21, a pair of holes 23 and 24 are provided parallel to the z axis on both sides of the core portion 21 within the cladding portion 22, and an intermediate 20 is thereby fabricated. In this intermediate 20, a width Ry in the y-axis direction is made smaller than a width Rx in the x-axis direction. Moreover, a cylindrical stress applying part 33 is inserted into a hole 23 of the intermediate 20, and a cylindrical stress applying part 34 is inserted into a hole 24 thereof. Thus, a preform 40 is formed. These materials are drawn and integrated together, and a polarization maintaining optical fiber is thereby manufactured.
摘要:
A drawing apparatus 1 comprises a drawing furnace 11, a protecting tube 21, and a resin curing unit 31. A buffer chamber 41 is disposed between the drawing furnace 11 and the protecting tube 21, and has a length L1 in the drawing direction of the optical fiber 3. The buffer chamber 41 is constituted by a first buffer cell 42 and a second buffer cell 45. In the space within the buffer chamber 41, an He gas, which is an atmosphere gas within the drawing furnace 11, and the air, which is an atmosphere gas within the protecting tube 21, exist in a mixed state. The optical fiber 3 drawn upon heating in the drawing furnace 11 is fed to the protecting tube 21, and a predetermined part of the optical fiber 3 is annealed at a predetermined cooling rate. Thereafter, a coating die 62 coats the optical fiber 3 with a UV resin solution 63, and the resin curing unit 31 cures the UV resin 63, whereby a coated optical fiber 4 is obtained.
摘要:
There is provided an optical fiber drawing furnace capable of drawing an optical fiber having small non circularity, which drawing furnace includes a muffle tube, in which an optical fiber preform is supplied, a heater surrounding the muffle tube, a plurality of electrode connecting portion extending from the heater, a plurality of electrodes connected to electrode connecting portions, and in conjunction therewith to an electric power source, and unifying means for unifying the temperature distribution along the circumferential direction.
摘要:
An apparatus for producing optical fiber ribbons which has a optical fiber gathering device, one or more coating applicators and a turn roller arranged in a straight line, with one or more alignment guide in plate form being provided on a travelling line of optical fibers or optical fiber ribbons upstream of the coating applicator. The alignment guide is chamfered to arch form on the side that contacts the optical fibers or the optical fiber ribbons. The alignment guide suppresses the optical fibers or the optical fiber ribbons from vibrating in a direction perpendicular to the direction of the arrangement of the optical fibers or the optical fiber ribbons.
摘要:
A furnace and method for drawing an optical fiber is provided. The furnace included a furnace core chamber in which a preform is inserted into the chamber through the upper end thereof and a drawn optical fiber is pulled out of the chamber through an opening positioned at the lower end thereof. The furnace also includes a gas-supply means for introducing an inert gas into the furnace core chamber to thus establish an inert gas atmosphere within the chamber, and a heater for heating the preform so that the lower part of the preform is molten and drawn into the optical fiber, which is positioned around the outer periphery of the furnace core chamber. The furnace further includes an inner furnace core tube, which is positioned within the furnace core chamber and which has a cylindrical part whose lower part is communicated to the opening of the furnace core chamber and a funnel-like part which is positioned on the upper end of the cylindrical part. The funnel-like part has a diameter gradually and upwardly increased so as to surround the lower portion of the molten portion of the preform.
摘要:
An optical fiber preform manufacturing apparatus which continuously monitors the weight of a preform during manufacturing by a load cell without increasing the offset amount of the preform. The preform manufacturing apparatus includes a rotary chuck unit vertically moved by an elevating unit and a rod gripped by the rotary chuck unit and vertically extending downward. At the time of manufacturing a preform, the elevating unit and the rotary chuck unit are driven to rotate and move a starting rod suspended from the lower end of the rod upward. A support plate is fixed to the rotary chuck unit. Three or more load cells are arranged between the support plate and an elevating plate of the elevating unit. The rotary chuck unit is firmly supported by these load cells, so that the rotating shaft is not inclined. A hole is formed in the elevating plate, and the rotary chuck unit extends through the hole with a gap therebetween. A load by the support plate, the rotary chuck unit, the seed rod, a starting rod and the preform acts on the load cells. Therefore, the weight of the preform can be detected from an output from the load cells.
摘要:
A method for processing an exposed silver halide color photographic photosensitive material is disclosed, which comprises the step of developing the exposed material with a color developer in a color development tank of an automatic developing apparatus, the developer in the developer tank being replenished with replenishing water and a solid color developing composition comprising a p-phenylenediamine color developing agent having a water-solubilizing group, wherein the replenishing amount of the water is 30 to 75 ml per m.sup.2 of the material processed and the replenishing amount of the color developing agent is 0.024 to 0.066 mol per liter of the replenishing amount of the water.
摘要:
There is provided a process for the consolidation of a porous glass preform for an optical fiber by heating the preform under an increasing pattern of a heating temperature in a vacuum furnace comprising a muffle tube therein characterized in that the increasing pattern is divided into two steps consisting of a first step and a second step with regard to time, and the first step has a pattern in which the heating temperature is increased under a reduced pressure atmosphere and a gas comprising at least an inert gas is supplied to the vacuum furnace under the reduced pressure atmosphere and the second step has a pattern in which the heating temperature is increased under a reduced pressure atmosphere in which a gas comprising a smaller amount of an inert gas than that of the first step is supplied to the vacuum furnace or under a vacuum pressure atmosphere in which no gas is supplied to the vacuum furnace.