CN102346275A - Optical fiber end surface processing method - Google Patents
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The invention discloses an optical fiber end surface processing method, which comprises the following steps of: enabling the temperature of the end part (1) of the optical fiber to instantly reach or exceed the smelting point of an optical fiber material by providing a heat source (A); and enabling the end surface (a) of the optical fiber to form a smooth spherical surface or a quasi-spherical surface by utilizing the surface tension at the end part of the liquid optical fiber, so as to realize physical contact of end surfaces of fibre cores when the optical fibers are connected to achieve a grinding method processing effect. Compared with the prior art, the optical fiber end surface hot-melting method provided by the invention has the advantages of avoiding the adverse influence caused by reflective index matching liquid and the like, ensuring the physical contact of the fiber cores when the optical fibers are connected and also ensuring that the connection performance meets requirements. Meanwhile, equipment needed by the method disclosed by the invention is lightweight and portable, simple to operation and convenient to observe; and the optical fiber end surface processing method can realize repeated processing on the end surface of the optical fiber under the condition of not damaging any other assemblies and achieve the purpose of low cost.
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Technical field
The present invention is a kind of disposal route that relates to the fiber end face form; With thermals source such as electric arc, laser, flames optical fiber end is carried out heat and melt processing; Utilize the surface tension effects of liquid optical fiber end to make fiber end face form smooth sphere or director sphere; And keep former fibre-optic waveguide transmission feature; Realize optical fiber fibre core end face physics contact when continuing, reach the effect that polishing is handled.
Background technology
At present the fiber end face disposal route that is fixedly connected with impermanency between device of optical fiber and optical fiber and optical fiber mainly contains fiber cut processing and two kinds of methods of optical fiber lapping processing; The fiber cut facture is to utilize the fiber cut cutter that fiber end face is cleaved into the fiber end face of smooth, and the optical fiber lapping facture is to utilize the optic fiber polishing machine multiple operation to grind fiber end face is ground to form smooth flat, inclined-plane or sphere.
Though the fiber cut facture is simple, although the cutting end face is the plane, is limited to the precision of fiber cut cutter, defective can appear in the cutting end face, and the angle of cutting end face is random distribution, and loss and reflection loss index are relatively poor when causing fibre junction.
The optical fiber lapping facture is handled the fiber end face of making; Sphere fiber end face particularly; Can not realize the physics contact between the fiber core under the situation such as plated film, interpolation index-matching fluid; It is functional to continue; Stability is high; But the optical fiber lapping facture be produce in factory or its manufacturing process of field fabrication all more complicated is complicated, manufacturing cost and difficulty are higher.
Summary of the invention
Technical matters:The technical matters that the present invention solves is the deficiency to above-mentioned prior art, and a kind of not only fast and reliable but also cost-effective fiber end face disposal route are provided.
Technical scheme:Fiber end face disposal route according to the invention; With thermals source such as electric arc, laser, flames optical fiber end is carried out heat and melt processing; Utilize the surface tension effects of liquid optical fiber end to make fiber end face form smooth sphere or director sphere; Processing procedure is not destroyed former fibre-optic waveguide characteristic; Thereby realize optical fiber fibre core end face physics contact when continuing, reach the effect that the sphere polishing is handled.
A kind of fiber end face disposal route of the present invention; Through providing thermal source to make optical fiber end temperature moment meet or exceed the fusing point of fiber optic materials; Utilize the surface tension effects of liquid optical fiber end to make fiber end face form smooth sphere or director sphere; Realize optical fiber fibre core end face physics contact when continuing, reach the effect that polishing is handled.
Concrete grammar is: at first optical fiber is carried out cutting process and form fiber end face; It is 1700～2500 degrees centigrade thermal source A that a temperature is provided then; Fiber end face to well cutting carries out the hot melt processing, utilizes the surface tension effects of liquid optical fiber end to make fiber end face form the smooth sphere or the director sphere of 7～25mm curvature.
Described thermal source adopts electric arc, laser, flame as thermal source.The fiber end face process object is the optical fiber of quartz material.
Beneficial effect:Compare with existing disposal route, fiber end face hot melt facture provided by the present invention, the adverse effect of having avoided index-matching fluid etc. to bring, the physics of fiber core contact when having guaranteed to continue, the performance that continues meets the demands.Simultaneously, this method equipment needed thereby is light, simple to operate, is convenient to observe, but and can under the situation of not destroying any other assembly, realizes the fiber end face re-treatment reaching low-cost purpose.
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Fig. 1 is the fiber cut end view;
Fig. 2 handles cutting end face schematic diagram for hot melt;
Fig. 3 handles the rear end face synoptic diagram for hot melt;
Fibre core physics contact synoptic diagram when Fig. 4 is coupling.
Wherein have: optical fiber end 1, an end optical fiber 2, other end optical fiber 3, an end fibre core 4, other end fibre core 5, fiber end face a, smooth sphere or director sphere b, thermal source A.
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In conjunction with accompanying drawing, the present invention is elaborated.
As shown in Figure 1, the preparation fiber end face, optical fiber end 1 process fiber cut cutter is cleaved into the fiber end face a of smooth, and fiber end face a is subjected to the influence of cutter precision to have certain angle of inclination.
As shown in Figure 2, the good optical fiber end 1 of cutting is positioned among the thermal source A, its thermal source A and thermal source A intensity can be made suitable adjustment according to the situation of fiber optic materials difference and fiber optic applications.
As shown in Figure 3: utilize hot melt processing modes such as electric arc, laser or flame; Optical fiber end 1 limited fusion with complete cutting; Utilize the surface tension of liquid effect to make the optical fiber end 1 of limited fusion form smooth sphere or director sphere b, accomplish end face behind the cooling curing and handle.Smooth sphere according to the invention or director sphere b obtain through hot melting way, and it is subjected to the influence of thermal source A intensity and the material of optical fiber own etc., and its assurance fibre-optic waveguide transmission feature is not damaged.
As shown in Figure 4: one end fibre core 4 contact with other end fibre core 5 end face physics when carrying out an end optical fiber 2 that end face handles with 3 couplings of other end optical fiber through said method, and realization is hanged down damage and continued.
Claims (3)
1. fiber end face disposal route; It is characterized in that: make optical fiber end (1) temperature moment meet or exceed the fusing point of fiber optic materials through thermal source (A) is provided; Utilize the surface tension effects of liquid optical fiber end to make fiber end face (a) form smooth sphere or director sphere (b); Realize optical fiber fibre core end face physics contact when continuing, reach the effect that polishing is handled; Concrete grammar is:
At first optical fiber is carried out cutting process and form fiber end face (a); It is 1700～2500 degrees centigrade thermal source (A) that a temperature is provided then; Fiber end face (a) to well cutting carries out the hot melt processing, utilizes the surface tension effects of liquid optical fiber end to make fiber end face (a) form the smooth sphere or the director sphere (b) of 7～25mm curvature.
2. fiber end face disposal route according to claim 1 is characterized in that: described thermal source (A) adopts electric arc, laser, flame as thermal source.
3. fiber end face disposal route according to claim 1 and 2 is characterized in that, the fiber end face process object is the optical fiber of quartz material.
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