CONTROLLING REFRACTIVE INDEX PROFILE DURING FIBER PREFORM MANUFACTURING

    公开(公告)号:US20240230984A9

    公开(公告)日:2024-07-11

    申请号:US18191683

    申请日:2023-03-28

    摘要: In some implementations, a substrate tube in a modified chemical vapor deposition process may rotate while glass precursors flow into the substrate tube at a fixed rate. Dopants may be delivered into the substrate tube while heat is applied to the substrate tube to deposit, on an inner wall of the substrate tube, a layer of material including the glass precursors and the dopants. A lateral position of an exit of an injection tube used to deliver the dopants may be adjusted while the substrate tube is rotated and heat is applied to the substrate tube such that the material deposited on the inner wall of the substrate tube has an azimuthally non-uniform doping concentration. Alternatively, a rotation of the substrate tube may be adjusted to create opposing temperature gradients within the substrate tube, causing non-uniform layer deposition to occur on different sides of the substrate tube in alternating passes.

    CONTROLLING REFRACTIVE INDEX PROFILE DURING FIBER PREFORM MANUFACTURING

    公开(公告)号:US20240134113A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-04-25

    申请号:US18191683

    申请日:2023-03-27

    摘要: In some implementations, a substrate tube in a modified chemical vapor deposition process may rotate while glass precursors flow into the substrate tube at a fixed rate. Dopants may be delivered into the substrate tube while heat is applied to the substrate tube to deposit, on an inner wall of the substrate tube, a layer of material including the glass precursors and the dopants. A lateral position of an exit of an injection tube used to deliver the dopants may be adjusted while the substrate tube is rotated and heat is applied to the substrate tube such that the material deposited on the inner wall of the substrate tube has an azimuthally non-uniform doping concentration. Alternatively, a rotation of the substrate tube may be adjusted to create opposing temperature gradients within the substrate tube, causing non-uniform layer deposition to occur on different sides of the substrate tube in alternating passes.

    Manufacturing method of porous glass base material for optical fiber

    公开(公告)号:US11795098B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-10-24

    申请号:US17189822

    申请日:2021-03-02

    发明人: Naoto Noda

    IPC分类号: C03B37/018 C03B37/014

    摘要: A manufacturing method of a porous glass base material for optical fiber includes: supplying an organic siloxane raw material supplied from a raw material tank is fed to a vaporizer; mixing and vaporizing the raw material and carrier gas in the vaporizer; and externally depositing SiO2 fine particles through combustion reaction by supplying the mixed gas of raw the material and the carrier gas to the burner in the manufacturing apparatus of porous glass base material for optical fiber. Before starting to supply the raw material to a raw material gas supply pipe of the burner, the burner and the inside of a manufacturing apparatus of porous glass base material for optical fiber are pre-heated by flowing purge gas of 60° C. or higher into the raw material gas supply pipe and supplying combustible gas and combustion supporting gas to the burner.

    Sintering method of porous glass base material for optical fiber

    公开(公告)号:US11787726B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-10-17

    申请号:US17581276

    申请日:2022-01-21

    发明人: Yusuke Kashiwagi

    IPC分类号: C03B37/018 C03B37/014

    CPC分类号: C03B37/01853 C03B37/0146

    摘要: A sintering apparatus comprising: a furnace core tube containing a porous glass base material for optical fiber whose longitudinal direction is along the axial direction; and a multi-stage heater in which two or more heaters surround the furnace core tube and are arranged in the axial direction of the furnace core tube to form a heating area in the furnace core tube, is used. The sintering method includes a step in which the base material is heated in the heating area to perform a first dehydration process; and a step in which the base material is moved so that the position in the longitudinal direction of the base material where the dehydration was identified as the most insufficient, is at the position in the axial direction of the furnace core tube where the temperature is highest in the heating area, and then a second dehydration process is performed.

    Method of manufacturing porous glass preform for optical fiber

    公开(公告)号:US11565964B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-01-31

    申请号:US15712791

    申请日:2017-09-22

    摘要: A method of manufacturing a porous glass preform includes depositing glass particles on an outer periphery of a target rod while a burner for synthesizing glass particles and the target rod that is rotating are relatively reciprocated, wherein V and r are gradually reduced while a variation in sweeping pitch P [mm] expressed as V/r is caused to be within a range of a central value±10% when a glass particle deposition layer of a portion satisfying a relation 0.5 L≤R≤0.8 L is synthesized; where a final outer diameter of the manufactured porous glass preform for an optical fiber is L [mm], an outer diameter of a glass particle deposition body in the middle of the manufacture is R [mm], a rotating speed of the target rod is r [rpm], and a relative moving speed between the target rod and the burner is V [mm/min.].