GB1500530A - Process for producing optical fibre preforms - Google Patents

Process for producing optical fibre preforms

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Publication number
GB1500530A
GB1500530A GB709275A GB709275A GB1500530A GB 1500530 A GB1500530 A GB 1500530A GB 709275 A GB709275 A GB 709275A GB 709275 A GB709275 A GB 709275A GB 1500530 A GB1500530 A GB 1500530A
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Prior art keywords
tube
glass
vapour mixture
silica
heating
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GB709275A
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AT&T Corp
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Western Electric Co Inc
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    • 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
    • C03B37/01861—Means for changing or stabilising the diameter or form of tubes or rods
    • 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
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G02—OPTICS
    • G02B—OPTICAL ELEMENTS, SYSTEMS OR APPARATUS
    • G02B6/00—Light guides; Structural details of arrangements comprising light guides and other optical elements, e.g. couplings
    • G02B6/02—Optical fibres with cladding with or without a coating

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  • Chemical & Material Sciences (AREA)
  • Engineering & Computer Science (AREA)
  • Chemical Kinetics & Catalysis (AREA)
  • General Chemical & Material Sciences (AREA)
  • Life Sciences & Earth Sciences (AREA)
  • General Life Sciences & Earth Sciences (AREA)
  • Geochemistry & Mineralogy (AREA)
  • Manufacturing & Machinery (AREA)
  • Materials Engineering (AREA)
  • Organic Chemistry (AREA)
  • Manufacture, Treatment Of Glass Fibers (AREA)
  • Glass Compositions (AREA)
GB709275A 1974-02-22 1975-02-19 Process for producing optical fibre preforms Expired GB1500530A (en)

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US44470574A 1974-02-22 1974-02-22

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GB1500530A true GB1500530A (en) 1978-02-08

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JP (1) JPS5522423B2 (ja)
CA (1) CA1050833A (ja)
DE (1) DE2507340B2 (ja)
FR (1) FR2261992B1 (ja)
GB (1) GB1500530A (ja)
NL (1) NL165720C (ja)

Cited By (3)

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WO1980001378A1 (en) * 1979-01-05 1980-07-10 Western Electric Co Improved optical fiber fabrication process
US4257797A (en) 1979-01-05 1981-03-24 Western Electric Optical fiber fabrication process
JPS56501606A (ja) * 1979-12-03 1981-11-05

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JPS5156642A (ja) * 1974-11-13 1976-05-18 Sumitomo Electric Industries
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US4339173A (en) * 1975-09-08 1982-07-13 Corning Glass Works Optical waveguide containing P2 O5 and GeO2
DE2546162B1 (de) * 1975-10-15 1976-09-23 Jenaer Glaswerk Schott & Gen Lichtleitfaser mit Brechungsindexgradient zur Nachrichtenuebertragung
AU504423B2 (en) * 1975-11-14 1979-10-11 International Standard Electric Corporation Optical fibre
JPS5621777Y2 (ja) * 1976-02-04 1981-05-22
DE2614183C3 (de) * 1976-04-02 1981-11-12 Jenaer Glaswerk Schott & Gen., 6500 Mainz Lichtleitfaser mit Gradientenprofil des Brechungsindex, niedrigen Übertragungsverlusten, hoher Übertragungskapazität und großer Aperatur bei Verwnedung von GeO↓2↓
JPS5838367B2 (ja) * 1976-04-24 1983-08-23 株式会社フジクラ 光伝送用フアイバの製造方法
JPS5838368B2 (ja) * 1976-05-15 1983-08-23 住友電気工業株式会社 光フアイバの製造方法
JPS52153750A (en) * 1976-06-17 1977-12-21 Fujitsu Ltd Production of optical transmission wire
GB1586119A (en) * 1976-07-05 1981-03-18 Fujitsu Ltd Method of producing an optical fibre preform
DE2642949C3 (de) * 1976-09-24 1980-11-20 Philips Patentverwaltung Gmbh, 2000 Hamburg Verfahren zur Herstellung von innenbeschichteten Glasrohren zum Ziehen von Lichtleitfasern
US4111525A (en) * 1976-10-12 1978-09-05 Bell Telephone Laboratories, Incorporated Silica based optical fiber waveguide using phosphorus pentoxide and germanium dioxide
JPS5395649A (en) * 1977-02-02 1978-08-22 Hitachi Ltd Production of optical fiber
CA1080562A (en) * 1977-02-10 1980-07-01 Frederick D. King Method of and apparatus for manufacturing an optical fibre with plasma activated deposition in a tube
GB1602052A (en) * 1977-06-20 1981-11-04 Int Standard Electric Corp Optical fibre manufacture
DE2814380C3 (de) * 1978-04-04 1982-07-08 Schott Glaswerke, 6500 Mainz Verfahren zur Herstellung optischer Glasfasern aus einem kollabierten Kieselglasrohr
US4229070A (en) * 1978-07-31 1980-10-21 Corning Glass Works High bandwidth optical waveguide having B2 O3 free core and method of fabrication
US4230396A (en) * 1978-07-31 1980-10-28 Corning Glass Works High bandwidth optical waveguides and method of fabrication
JPS55104941A (en) * 1979-02-06 1980-08-11 Nippon Telegr & Teleph Corp <Ntt> Production of preform for optical fiber
DE2929166A1 (de) * 1979-07-19 1981-01-29 Philips Patentverwaltung Verfahren zur herstellung von lichtleitfasern
US4425146A (en) * 1979-12-17 1984-01-10 Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Public Corporation Method of making glass waveguide for optical circuit
GB2071644B (en) * 1980-02-22 1984-03-14 Sumitomo Electric Industries Radiation resistant optical fibres and a process for the production thereof
US4298364A (en) * 1980-03-17 1981-11-03 Corning Glass Works Method of making optical fibers having improved core roundness
DE3133013A1 (de) * 1980-08-26 1982-04-08 Western Electric Co., Inc., 10038 New York, N.Y. "verfahren zum herstellen eines lichtleiterfaserrohlings"
FR2543455B1 (fr) * 1983-03-30 1987-03-27 Air Liquide Procede d'opalisation de la surface interieure d'objets de grande longueur par rapport a leur section
DE3335126A1 (de) * 1983-09-28 1985-04-11 Wacker-Chemitronic Gesellschaft für Elektronik-Grundstoffe mbH, 8263 Burghausen Verfahren zur chemischen gasphasenabscheidung oxidischer partikel
JPH04135612U (ja) * 1991-06-11 1992-12-17 ナシヨナル住宅産業株式会社 外壁パネル接合構造
KR0153835B1 (ko) * 1995-11-07 1998-11-16 김광호 매끄러운 환상고리 굴절율 프로파일을 갖는 분산이동광섬유의 제조방법
US6769275B2 (en) * 2002-03-15 2004-08-03 Fibercore, Inc. Method for making optical fiber preform using simultaneous inside and outside deposition

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US3737293A (en) * 1972-01-03 1973-06-05 Corning Glass Works Method of forming an economic optical waveguide fiber
JPS4886918A (ja) * 1972-02-22 1973-11-16
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DE2434717C2 (de) * 1973-08-21 1989-05-18 International Standard Electric Corp., 10022 New York, N.Y. Verfahren zur Herstellung eines Glasfaser-Lichtleiters
JPS59454B2 (ja) * 1973-09-22 1984-01-06 住友電気工業株式会社 光伝送用ファイバ母材の製造方法

Cited By (3)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
WO1980001378A1 (en) * 1979-01-05 1980-07-10 Western Electric Co Improved optical fiber fabrication process
US4257797A (en) 1979-01-05 1981-03-24 Western Electric Optical fiber fabrication process
JPS56501606A (ja) * 1979-12-03 1981-11-05

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FR2261992B1 (ja) 1980-01-04
DE2507340A1 (de) 1975-08-28
FR2261992A1 (ja) 1975-09-19
JPS50120352A (ja) 1975-09-20
JPS5522423B2 (ja) 1980-06-17
DE2507340B2 (de) 1979-03-01
NL165720C (nl) 1984-02-16
NL165720B (nl) 1980-12-15
CA1050833A (en) 1979-03-20
NL7502017A (nl) 1975-08-26

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