CA1107576A - Method of producing an optical fiber - Google Patents

Method of producing an optical fiber

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Publication number
CA1107576A
CA1107576A CA281,630A CA281630A CA1107576A CA 1107576 A CA1107576 A CA 1107576A CA 281630 A CA281630 A CA 281630A CA 1107576 A CA1107576 A CA 1107576A
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Prior art keywords
soot
gas
gases
tube
reactor
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CA281,630A
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English (en)
French (fr)
Inventor
Takeshi Akamatsu
Koji Okamura
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Fujitsu Ltd
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Fujitsu Ltd
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Priority claimed from JP51078866A external-priority patent/JPS5945613B2/ja
Priority claimed from JP13217076A external-priority patent/JPS5357047A/ja
Application filed by Fujitsu Ltd filed Critical Fujitsu Ltd
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Publication of CA1107576A publication Critical patent/CA1107576A/en
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Classifications

    • C—CHEMISTRY; METALLURGY
    • C03—GLASS; MINERAL OR SLAG WOOL
    • C03B—MANUFACTURE, SHAPING, OR SUPPLEMENTARY PROCESSES
    • C03B37/00—Manufacture or treatment of flakes, fibres, or filaments from softened glass, minerals, or slags
    • C03B37/01—Manufacture of glass fibres or filaments
    • C03B37/012—Manufacture of preforms for drawing fibres or filaments
    • C03B37/014—Manufacture of preforms for drawing fibres or filaments made entirely or partially by chemical means, e.g. vapour phase deposition of bulk porous glass either by outside vapour deposition [OVD], or by outside vapour phase oxidation [OVPO] or by vapour axial deposition [VAD]
    • C03B37/018—Manufacture of preforms for drawing fibres or filaments made entirely or partially by chemical means, e.g. vapour phase deposition of bulk porous glass either by outside vapour deposition [OVD], or by outside vapour phase oxidation [OVPO] or by vapour axial deposition [VAD] by glass deposition on a glass substrate, e.g. by inside-, modified-, plasma-, or plasma modified- chemical vapour deposition [ICVD, MCVD, PCVD, PMCVD], i.e. by thin layer coating on the inside or outside of a glass tube or on a glass rod
    • C03B37/01807—Reactant delivery systems, e.g. reactant deposition burners
    • C—CHEMISTRY; METALLURGY
    • C03—GLASS; MINERAL OR SLAG WOOL
    • C03B—MANUFACTURE, SHAPING, OR SUPPLEMENTARY PROCESSES
    • C03B37/00—Manufacture or treatment of flakes, fibres, or filaments from softened glass, minerals, or slags
    • C03B37/01—Manufacture of glass fibres or filaments
    • C03B37/012—Manufacture of preforms for drawing fibres or filaments
    • C03B37/014—Manufacture of preforms for drawing fibres or filaments made entirely or partially by chemical means, e.g. vapour phase deposition of bulk porous glass either by outside vapour deposition [OVD], or by outside vapour phase oxidation [OVPO] or by vapour axial deposition [VAD]
    • C03B37/018—Manufacture of preforms for drawing fibres or filaments made entirely or partially by chemical means, e.g. vapour phase deposition of bulk porous glass either by outside vapour deposition [OVD], or by outside vapour phase oxidation [OVPO] or by vapour axial deposition [VAD] by glass deposition on a glass substrate, e.g. by inside-, modified-, plasma-, or plasma modified- chemical vapour deposition [ICVD, MCVD, PCVD, PMCVD], i.e. by thin layer coating on the inside or outside of a glass tube or on a glass rod
    • C03B37/01853—Thermal after-treatment of preforms, e.g. dehydrating, consolidating, sintering
    • C—CHEMISTRY; METALLURGY
    • C03—GLASS; MINERAL OR SLAG WOOL
    • C03B—MANUFACTURE, SHAPING, OR SUPPLEMENTARY PROCESSES
    • C03B2201/00—Type of glass produced
    • C03B2201/06—Doped silica-based glasses
    • C03B2201/30—Doped silica-based glasses doped with metals, e.g. Ga, Sn, Sb, Pb or Bi
    • C03B2201/31—Doped silica-based glasses doped with metals, e.g. Ga, Sn, Sb, Pb or Bi doped with germanium
    • C—CHEMISTRY; METALLURGY
    • C03—GLASS; MINERAL OR SLAG WOOL
    • C03B—MANUFACTURE, SHAPING, OR SUPPLEMENTARY PROCESSES
    • C03B2207/00—Glass deposition burners
    • C03B2207/80—Feeding the burner or the burner-heated deposition site
    • C03B2207/85—Feeding the burner or the burner-heated deposition site with vapour generated from liquid glass precursors, e.g. directly by heating the liquid
    • C03B2207/86—Feeding the burner or the burner-heated deposition site with vapour generated from liquid glass precursors, e.g. directly by heating the liquid by bubbling a gas through the liquid

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  • Chemical & Material Sciences (AREA)
  • Engineering & Computer Science (AREA)
  • Geochemistry & Mineralogy (AREA)
  • Life Sciences & Earth Sciences (AREA)
  • General Chemical & Material Sciences (AREA)
  • General Life Sciences & Earth Sciences (AREA)
  • Chemical Kinetics & Catalysis (AREA)
  • Manufacturing & Machinery (AREA)
  • Materials Engineering (AREA)
  • Organic Chemistry (AREA)
  • Physics & Mathematics (AREA)
  • Thermal Sciences (AREA)
  • Manufacture, Treatment Of Glass Fibers (AREA)
  • Surface Treatment Of Glass Fibres Or Filaments (AREA)
  • Glass Melting And Manufacturing (AREA)
CA281,630A 1976-07-05 1977-06-29 Method of producing an optical fiber Expired CA1107576A (en)

Applications Claiming Priority (4)

Application Number Priority Date Filing Date Title
JP51078866A JPS5945613B2 (ja) 1976-07-05 1976-07-05 オプテイカルフアイバ−の製造方法
JP78866/76 1976-07-05
JP13217076A JPS5357047A (en) 1976-11-01 1976-11-01 Preparatoin of light transmitting wire
JP132170/76 1976-11-01

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CA1107576A true CA1107576A (en) 1981-08-25

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US (1) US4149867A (enExample)
CA (1) CA1107576A (enExample)
DE (1) DE2730346C3 (enExample)
FR (1) FR2357496A1 (enExample)
GB (1) GB1586119A (enExample)
NL (1) NL7707370A (enExample)
SU (1) SU1194266A3 (enExample)

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US4230744A (en) * 1979-02-21 1980-10-28 Corning Glass Works System for delivering materials to deposition site on optical waveguide blank
US4191545A (en) * 1979-03-02 1980-03-04 Bell Telephone Laboratories, Incorporated Optical fiber fabrication process
JPS59152237A (ja) * 1983-02-18 1984-08-30 Hoya Corp ガラス体の製造法
DE3735532A1 (de) * 1987-10-21 1989-05-03 Rheydt Kabelwerk Ag Verfahren zum herstellen einer vorform fuer lichtwellenleiter
JPH029727A (ja) * 1988-06-28 1990-01-12 Sumitomo Electric Ind Ltd 光フアイバ用母材の製造方法
KR100408230B1 (ko) * 2001-05-02 2003-12-03 엘지전선 주식회사 광섬유 모재 제조방법
US6769275B2 (en) * 2002-03-15 2004-08-03 Fibercore, Inc. Method for making optical fiber preform using simultaneous inside and outside deposition
US20040065119A1 (en) * 2002-10-02 2004-04-08 Fitel U.S.A. Corporation Apparatus and method for reducing end effect of an optical fiber preform
JP4552599B2 (ja) * 2004-10-29 2010-09-29 住友電気工業株式会社 光ファイバ母材の製造方法
CA2611565C (en) * 2005-08-25 2012-04-17 Institut National D'optique Flow cytometry analysis across optical fiber
WO2011085465A1 (en) 2010-01-18 2011-07-21 Institut National D'optique Flow cytometry analysis across optical fiber
US20100316882A1 (en) * 2008-02-25 2010-12-16 Filippov Andrey V Nanomaterial and method for generating nanomaterial
JP5264369B2 (ja) * 2008-08-26 2013-08-14 株式会社フジクラ 光ファイバ母材の製造方法

Family Cites Families (3)

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Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
GB1391177A (en) * 1971-08-09 1975-04-16 Thermal Syndicate Ltd Vitreous siliceous material
CA1050833A (en) * 1974-02-22 1979-03-20 John B. Macchesney Optical fiber fabrication involving homogeneous reaction within a moving hot zone
US3933454A (en) * 1974-04-22 1976-01-20 Corning Glass Works Method of making optical waveguides

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DE2730346C3 (de) 1985-02-07
NL7707370A (nl) 1978-01-09
DE2730346B2 (de) 1979-07-19
FR2357496A1 (fr) 1978-02-03
GB1586119A (en) 1981-03-18
DE2730346A1 (de) 1978-01-12
SU1194266A3 (ru) 1985-11-23
US4149867A (en) 1979-04-17
FR2357496B1 (enExample) 1982-05-14

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