摘要:
A glass article is produced at a high production rate and a high yield by jetting a glass-forming raw material from a multi-port burner, synthesizing glass soot through hydrolysis of the glass-forming raw material, depositing the glass soot to form a soot preform and heating and vitrifying the soot preform to produce a transparent glass article, wherein the glass-forming raw material is vaporized by heating it at a temperature higher than its boiling point and directly supplied to the burner, the vaporized glass-forming raw material and a fuel gas for synthesizing glass soot are supplied to an inner port of the multi-port burner and a fuel gas for heating a formed preform is supplied to an outer port of the multi-port burner, and a molar ratio of water generated by a reaction of the fuel gas for synthesizing glass soot to the glass-foring raw material is from to 2 to 3.
摘要:
A glass preform for use in the fabrication of an optical fiber having little bubbles is produced by a method comprising depositing glass soot on a periphery of a starting glass rod to form a porous glass preform, heating and sintering the porous glass preform in a helium atmosphere to consolidate the porous glass preform and then heating the sintered glass in an atmosphere containing an inert gas except helium having partial pressure of the inert gas of not lower than 0.8 atm. to obtain a transparent glass preform.
摘要:
A transparent glass preform for an optical fiber is produced by heating a glass soot preform to remove gas from the soot preform at a temperature at which the soot preform is not vitrified under reduced pressure, and then heating the preform at a temperature at which the preform is vitrified under reduced pressure, whereby the transparent glass preform containing no or little bubbles and having a uniform outer diameter is produced.
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.
摘要:
The present invention relates to a method for precisely elongating a glass preform of an optical fiber body having a desired outer diameter. In this method, a predetermined part of the glass preform is elongated as tensile stress is applied to one end of the glass preform while a predetermined part of the glass preform is heated and softened successively from one end toward the other end of the glass preform. In this elongating operation, while the outer diameter of the softening portion of the glass preform is measured, the tensile stress is adjusted such that the outer diameter of the softening portion coincides with a preset value of the control outer diameter. In particular, this method is characterized in that the preset value of the control outer diameter is changed at least during a predetermined period until termination of elongation or during a predetermined period from the start of elongation.
摘要:
A method of manufacturing an optical fiber in which the deviation of a cutoff wavelength from a design value can be minimized. It is found that, upon diameter reduction of a porous core glass body by heat treatment, when the diameter reduction ratio is set to a value larger than 0.90, a "spike" in the refractive index distribution curve of a core can be prevented, and the deviation of the cutoff wavelength from the design value can be minimized. Therefore, there is provided a method comprising the first step of depositing fine SiO.sub.2 particles and fine GeO.sub.2 particles, which are produced by a core formation burner, to grow a porous core glass body from a distal end of a rotating starting rod in an axial direction, the second step of performing diameter reduction by heating the grown porous core glass body by heating means while growing the porous core glass body, and the third step of depositing fine SiO.sub.2 particles produced by a cladding formation burner to form a porous cladding glass layer on an outer surface of the diameter-reduced porous core glass body while performing growing and diameter reduction of the porous core glass body, wherein an outer diameter of the porous core glass body after the third step of depositing is larger than 0.90 times an outer diameter before diameter reduction.
摘要:
An apparatus for vitrifying a soot preform from which an optical fiber is produced by drawing, is composed of a main vacuum chamber 20 in which a muffle tube 70 for vitrifying the soot preform PF is located, and an auxiliary vacuum chamber 30 mounted on the main vacuum chamber 20 and communicated therewith through a passage, and a gate valve 60 for opening and closing the passage. The muffle tube 70 has a inner surface covered with silicon carbide layer 70a.
摘要:
A glass preform for an optical fiber is effectively drawn by connecting dummy rods to both ends of the glass preform and connecting the dummy rods to fitting members.
摘要:
In order to provide an improved process for the production of a glass preform for an optical fiber which includes substantially no bubble formation therein and also has a substantially uniform shape, the present invention provides a process for the production of a glass preform which is at least partially formed from silica. In particular, a body is formed on a rod by depositing fine glass particles thereon, preferably by the vapor phase reactions, and heating the body to vitrify under a reduced atmosphere or a vacuumed atmosphere so that the glass preform is produced. According to this process, the heating includes a first heating step of degassing the body at a first heating temperature, a second heating step of shrinking the body at a second heating temperature which is higher than the first heating temperature and which is lower than a third heating temperature, and a third heating step of vitrifying the shrunken body at the third temperature which corresponds to a vitrification temperature of the fine glass particles so as to produce the glass preform.
摘要:
A glass preform for use in the fabrication of an optical fiber having a reduced transmission loss is produced by synthesizing a soot preform by a vapor synthesis method and consolidating the soot preform in an electric furnace to obtain a glass preform, wherein an intermediate body consisting of a core portion and an inner part of a cladding portion is consolidated under atmospheric pressure and an outer part of the cladding portion which surrounds a periphery of the intermediated body is consolidated under reduced pressure or in vacuo.