WO2010052163A1 - Verfahren und zylinderförmiges halbzeug zur herstellung eines optischen bauteils - Google Patents
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- the present invention relates to a method for producing an optical component by elongating a cylindrical semifinished product made of synthetic quartz glass, comprising the following method steps:
- An inner cylinder of synthetic quartz glass having an outer wall is covered with a SiO 2 soot layer,
- the SiO 2 SO 2 layer is subjected to a sintering treatment in which the SiO 2 soot layer is heated from the outside, thereby moving a sintering zone from outside to inside through the SiO 2 soot layer to form an outer layer of transparent quartz glass.
- the invention relates to a cylindrical semi-finished product for the production of an optical component.
- the optical component is an optical fiber or preform for pulling the optical fiber.
- the optical fiber to be produced according to the invention is completely transparent and free from voids.
- Core rods as used to make optical fibers typically have a core glass region surrounded by an inner, relatively thin cladding glass layer. Further cladding glass is applied either by coating the core rod with synthetic quartz glass, or by overlaying the core rod with one or more hollow cylinders synthetic quartz glass. In both cases, intermediate steps are common in which porous soot layers of SiO 2 particles are deposited on a substrate body and the soot layer is subsequently sintered to form transparent quartz glass, which serves as cladding glass in fiber production.
- US Pat. No. 6,422,042 A describes a method for producing semi-finished products for producing a preform for optical fibers by applying a SiO 2 silt layer to the surface of a tube of fluorine-doped quartz glass.
- a core rod is introduced into the inner bore of the quartz glass tube, and then the soot layer is sintered in a hot process and at the same time the quartz glass tube is collapsed onto the core rod.
- a method for producing an optical preform in which a porous SiO 2 soot layer is deposited directly on the lateral surface of a core rod rotating about its longitudinal axis.
- the SiO 2 soot layer is deposited in a hydrogen-free reaction zone, for example a hydrogen-free plasma.
- a semifinished product and a method of the type mentioned are known from WO 2008/071759 A1.
- a method is proposed in which an inner tube of quartz glass is provided with a porous SiO 2 soot layer. Subsequently, the SiO 2 soot layer is sintered so that the inside of the inner tube remains below the deformation temperature of quartz glass. This is achieved, for example, by passing a coolant through the inner bore of the inner tube during the sintering process.
- a hollow cylinder can be produced with a smooth inner surface without geometrical deviations, which no longer has to be mechanically reworked and which can be used directly as a semi-finished product for fiber production.
- the method has the disadvantage that for cooling the inner tube large amounts of coolant must be used to prevent its deformation.
- the invention is therefore based on the object of specifying a method for the production of a semifinished product for use in fiber or preform production, which on the one hand ensures the advantage of a dimensionally accurate and low-deformation production and on the other hand is inexpensive.
- the invention has for its object to provide a suitable for the production of optical fibers or preforms semi-finished, which is inexpensive to produce and which is characterized by a high dimensional stability.
- the inner cylinder is either a quartz glass tube, which preferably has a smooth inner wall produced in the melt flow, or a rod, such as a core rod.
- the inner cylinder is provided in a known manner with a SiO 2 soot layer, which is then sintered in a sintering treatment.
- the sintering treatment is not performed so far that the soot layer sinters completely to transparent quartz glass, but it is interrupted before the sintering zone progressing from outside to inside Outside wall of the inner cylinder reached. In this way, a porous, opaque intermediate layer is produced on the outer wall of the inner cylinder, which is surrounded on both sides by quartz glass. This procedure has several advantages.
- the soot layer is only partially sintered during the sintering treatment. This results in a lower sintering temperature and / or a shorter sintering time, so that in each case the required heating power is lower than would be required for completely sintering through the soot layer.
- quartz glass acts as a thermal insulator and therefore the sintered, glassy layer acts as a barrier for the not transmitted by radiation portion of the heating power, so that with their increasing thickness, a higher heating power for further sintering is required.
- the outermost region of the SiO 2 soot layer immediately adjacent to the outer wall of the inner cylinder therefore requires the highest heating powers for transparent sintering, so that the method according to the invention contributes to a saving of heating energy.
- the method according to the invention makes it possible to use a core rod as inner cylinder, without the risk of impairing this costly and expensive component to be produced.
- the semifinished product produced by the process according to the invention thus exhibits a "sandwich structure" in the radial direction, which is constructed from the inside to the outside from a transparent quartz glass inner cylinder, a partially sintered, opaque intermediate layer and a transparent outer layer.
- the semifinished product is intended for the production of optical fibers. It is therefore subjected to one or more subsequent hot-forming processes, in particular an elongation process in which the semifinished product alone or with other components is elongated into an optical fiber or an optical fiber preform.
- the elongation process requires a complete softening of the quartz glass of the semifinished product, and it has surprisingly been found that the opaque intermediate layer thereby converts into a bubble-free, defect-free, transparent quartz glass layer, ie completely sintered to transparent quartz glass.
- Vacuoles are closed pores, which reliably collapse in the subsequent heat treatment process, even with particularly short softening times or low softening temperatures, so that no voids remain.
- the semifinished product can be subjected to the usual cleaning processes without any danger of introducing cleaning medium into the porous structure.
- the sintering treatment can also be carried out under hydrogen or helium, the pores of the intermediate layer containing hydrogen or helium.
- Hydrogen and helium are gases that diffuse particularly easily in quartz glass at high temperatures and therefore can escape from closed pores by diffusion. The gas-filled pores can therefore collapse in a subsequent Elongierrind, provided that the softening time is sufficiently long and / or the softening temperature is sufficiently high.
- the pores are produced with an average pore diameter of less than 5 ⁇ m, preferably with an average pore diameter of less than 3 ⁇ m.
- the average pore diameter is therefore preferably less than 2 ⁇ m.
- the pore diameter is adjusted in the sintering treatment by maintaining the sintering treatment until the intermediate layer is thermally densified to such an extent that only correspondingly small pores remain.
- the maximum pore diameter should not exceed 20 microns, since with such large pores a long heating time and / or a high heating temperature in the subsequent hot-forming process are required to ensure complete collapse. With very large pores, there is also a higher risk of contamination being introduced in subsequent hot-forming processes.
- the SiO 2 soot layer has on average a relative density (based on the density of quartz glass) in the range from 25 to 30%.
- the relative density of the soot layer has an influence on the diameter of the pores remaining in the intermediate layer.
- a relative density of the soot layer of less than 25% leads to high shrinkage during sintering, which can easily be associated with distortions and inhomogeneities, which are difficult to remove in the subsequent hot-forming process.
- initially high relative densities of the soot layer may be greater than 30%.
- areas with low gas permeability can easily form within the soot layer, which complicate a homogeneous density sintering of the intermediate layer and therefore can also lead to coarse bubbles.
- the density of quartz glass is assumed to be 2.21 g / cm 3 .
- the intermediate layer is produced with an average thickness of at most 50 mm, preferably with an average thickness in the range between 1 and 10 mm.
- tubular formed inner cylinder In the event that a tubular formed inner cylinder is used, it has been proven that this has an average wall thickness in the range of 4 mm to 25 mm and an inner diameter in the range of 30 to 60 mm.
- inner cylinder here an inner tube is used. Since in the method according to the invention softening and deformation of the inner tube inner wall is avoided, a subsequent complex mechanical post-processing of the inner bore, so that a tubular semi-finished product with high geometric precision and surface quality of the inner bore can be obtained inexpensively.
- the wall thickness of the inner cylinder is essentially determined by the weight and volume of the soot layer to be held. For reasons of strength, it is as thick as necessary and as cost-efficient as thin as possible.
- the specified range of 4 mm to 25 mm in this case represents a suitable compromise, wherein in a tubular inner cylinder, the deposition of the soot layer or the sintering process by means of a in the Internal support inserted support body - such as a graphite rod - is supported, a small wall thickness in the range of a few millimeters can meet.
- the method according to the invention makes it possible to produce semifinished product with a particularly small inner diameter.
- the outer layer is produced with an average thickness in the range of 10 mm to 150 mm.
- the outer layer of dense, transparent quartz glass stabilizes the semifinished product during subsequent processing steps and in particular protects the porous intermediate layer from the influence of the atmosphere during subsequent hot working steps. This function is favored with a minimum thickness of the outer layer of 10 mm.
- the sintering of the soot layer during the sintering treatment is carried out either by heating the cylindrical semi-finished product zone by zone from one front end to the other end, or by simultaneously heating the semi-finished product over its entire length.
- the gases present in the soot layer are driven in front of the inwardly proceeding sintering front and can more easily escape from the still porous regions of the soot layer. This facilitates the adjustment of an intermediate layer with a small size of the closed pores.
- an inner cylinder of quartz glass which contains fluorine in the range between 1 .mu.m and 15,000 ppm by weight.
- the addition of fluorine causes a lowering of both the refractive index and the viscosity of quartz glass.
- the comparatively lower viscosity of the fluorine-doped quartz glass can easily lead to deformation of the inner cylinder during sintering.
- the inventive method reduces in the sintering treatment the heating action on the inner cylinder, which allows the use of inner cylinders of thermally less stable quartz glass, such as a fluorine-doped quartz glass.
- the inventive method is therefore particularly well suited for the production of semi-finished products with radially inhomogeneous, in particular with gradual refractive index course.
- the abovementioned object is achieved according to the invention in that it has an inner layer of transparent, synthetic quartz glass, an intermediate layer of pores containing synthetic quartz glass, and an outer layer of transparent, synthetic quartz glass, wherein the pores are vacuoles or hydrogen or helium contain.
- the semifinished product according to the invention thus distinguishes itself by a "sandwich structure" in which a region of quartz glass with high porosity is enclosed between regions of transparent quartz glass Because of the "sandwich-like" embedding of the porous layer between dense, transparent quartz glass, the semifinished product according to the invention before its further processing, the usual cleaning methods are subjected, such as etching in a liquid etching solution or a treatment in a corrosive or cleaning atmosphere without impurities from the cleaning or etching agents can be entered into the porous intermediate layer.
- the cylindrical semi-finished product can be produced inexpensively by means of the method described above, the inner layer being subjected to little thermal load during the sintering treatment of the outer layer.
- the cylindrical semi-finished product according to the invention is distinguished by small deviations from the cylinder symmetry and, in the case of a tubular semi-finished product, by an inner bore with high dimensional accuracy.
- the semifinished product is used to produce an optical fiber or a preform for an optical fiber and is intended to be subjected to one or more subsequent hot-forming processes, wherein here First, an elongation process in which the semifinished product alone or with other components is elongated into an optical fiber or preform for an optical fiber.
- an elongation process requires a complete softening of the quartz glass of the semifinished product and it has surprisingly been found that the opaque intermediate layer thereby converts into an error-free, transparent quartz glass layer, ie is completely sintered to form transparent quartz glass.
- At least a portion of the cladding region of the optical fiber or optical preform is formed by a semifinished product according to the invention.
- the semifinished product thus contributes to a cost-effective production of a high-quality optical fiber.
- the pores of the intermediate layer are vacuoles or contain hydrogen or helium.
- Vacuoles are closed pores which reliably collapse in the subsequent heat treatment process, even with particularly short softening times or low softening temperatures, so that none Cavities remain behind.
- Hydrogen and helium are gases that diffuse particularly easily in quartz glass at high temperatures and therefore can escape from closed pores by diffusion. The gas-filled pores can therefore collapse in a subsequent heat treatment process, provided that the softening time is sufficiently long and / or the softening temperature is sufficiently high.
- the pores have an average pore diameter of less than 5 microns, preferably a mean pore diameter of less than 3 microns.
- the average pore diameter is therefore preferably less than 3 ⁇ m.
- the maximum Pore diameter should not exceed 20 microns, since with such large pores a long heating time and / or a high heating temperature in the subsequent hot-forming process are required to ensure complete collapse. With very large pores, there is also a higher risk of contamination being introduced in subsequent hot-forming processes.
- the intermediate layer has an average thickness of at most 50 mm, preferably in the range between 5 and 10 mm.
- the inner layer is tubular and has an average thickness in the range of 4 mm to 25 mm and an inner diameter in the range of 30 to 60 mm.
- the semifinished product is in this case tubular and accordingly the inner layer is provided with an inner bore.
- its inner bore is distinguished by high geometrical precision and surface quality. Elaborate mechanical reworking of the inner wall of the inner bore after the sintering process is not required.
- the outer layer has an average thickness in the range of 10 mm to 150 mm.
- the outer layer of dense, transparent quartz glass stabilizes the semifinished product during its further processing and, in particular, protects the porous intermediate layer from the influence of the atmosphere during subsequent hot working steps. This effect is favored by a minimum thickness of the outer layer of 10 mm. At thicknesses of the outer layer of more than 150 mm, this represents a certain thermal barrier in subsequent hot deformation processes, which can complicate a dense sintering of the porous intermediate layer.
- a particularly preferred embodiment of the semifinished product according to the invention is characterized in that the inner layer consists of quartz glass, which contains fluorine in the range between 1 .000 and 15,000 ppm by weight.
- the addition of fluorine causes a lowering of both the refractive index and the viscosity of quartz glass.
- the comparatively lower viscosity of the fluorine-doped quartz glass can easily lead to deformation of the inner layer when heated to sinter the outer layer.
- the method according to the invention explained above reduces the heating effect on the inner layer of the semifinished product in the sintering treatment, so that a semifinished product with a geometrically precise and dimensionally stable inner layer can be obtained, even if it consists of a thermally less stable quartz glass, such as a fluorine-doped quartz glass , With an outer layer and an intermediate layer of undoped quartz glass, the semifinished product according to the invention thus exhibits a radially inhomogeneous, gradual refractive index profile.
- Such a semi-finished product is particularly suitable for the production of so-called bend-insensitive optical fibers, which are characterized by a jacket region with a lowered refractive index.
- FIG. 1 shows a radial cross-section of a quartz glass inner tube coated with an SiO 2 soot layer before the SiO 2 soot layer is sintered
- FIG. 2 shows a radial cross section of the quartz glass inner tube coated with the SiO 2 soot layer after the sintering of the SiO 2 soot layer
- 3 shows schematically a diagram with the radial profile of
- FIG. 4 schematically shows a plan view of the region of the interface between outer layer and intermediate layer in the semifinished product according to the invention.
- the inner tube 3 has an inner bore 2 with an inner diameter of 50 mm and a wall thickness of 10 mm.
- the soot layer 4 has a thickness of about 150 mm with an average density of about 27%.
- the inner tube 3 coated with the SiO 2 soot layer 4 is subjected to a sintering treatment, as a result of which the semifinished product 1 according to the invention shown in FIG. 2 is obtained.
- the semifinished product 1 has, unchanged, the inner bore 2 with an inner diameter of 50 mm, which is surrounded by an inner layer 5 made of synthetic quartz glass with a layer thickness of 10 mm, wherein the inner layer 5 is formed from the synthetic quartz glass of the original inner tube 3.
- an intermediate layer 6 of porous quartz glass Adjoining the inner layer 5 to the outside, an intermediate layer 6 of porous quartz glass, and to it an outer layer 7 of transparent quartz glass.
- Intermediate layer 6 and outer layer 7 are formed from the synthetic SiO 2 of the original soot layer 4.
- the outer layer 7 forms a completely densely sintered region of the original soot layer 4, and the intermediate layer 6 forms a not completely sintered, porous region of the soot layer 4.
- the intermediate layer has a mean layer thickness of about 5 mm and the outer layer has an average layer thickness of about 61 mm , Of the Outer diameter of the cylindrical semi-finished product 1 is therefore about 202 mm in total.
- the interface between the inner layer 5 and the intermediate layer 6 is readily recognizable and defined as a sharp transition between opaque and transparent quartz glass.
- the boundary between these areas is defined as the line at which the pore volume is approximately 37% (1 / e) of the maximum pore volume (100%), as will be explained in greater detail below with reference to FIGS. 3 and 4.
- a hollow cylinder made of synthetic quartz glass which is commercially available under the name "F 300" from Heraeus Quarzglas GmbH & Co. KG, is elongated tool-free in a vertical drawing process and from the inner tube 3 with an outer diameter of 70 mm, an inner diameter of 50 mm and a wall thickness of 10 mm
- the quartz glass of the inner tube has a typical hydroxyl group content of less than 0.2 ppm by weight and a chlorine content of less than 2500 ppm by weight.
- the SiO 2 soot layer 4 is produced by OVD outer deposition.
- SiO 2 particles are formed by flame hydrolysis of SiCl 4 and deposited in layers on the outer jacket of the inner tube 3 rotating about its longitudinal axis, so that on the inner tube 3 a porous SiO 2 soot layer 4 with a layer thickness of about 150 mm and with a relative density of 27% (based on the density of undoped quartz glass) is formed.
- the coated inner tube 3 is subjected to a dehydration treatment, which is treated under nitrogen for 6 hours Temperature of 900 0 C and subsequent treatment in chlorine-containing atmosphere at a temperature of 900 ° C over a period of 8 hours.
- the porous SiC> 2 soot layer 4 is sintered in a vertical zone sintering process.
- the soot layer 4 inner tube 3 is placed in a vacuum oven and under vacuum (pressure ⁇ 2 mbar) starting with the lower end continuously and fed at a feed rate of 3 mm / min a fixed, annular, short heating zone and thereby the soot layer 4 zones from bottom to top and sintered from the outside to the inside at the same time.
- the temperature in the heating zone is about 1, 500 ° C.
- Feeding rate and temperature are chosen so that the sintering front traveling from the outside to the inside produces a completely densely sintered, transparent outer layer 7 and a further inner opaque intermediate layer 6 adjoining the inner layer 5, which is not completely densely sintered and contains the vacuoles ,
- the average diameter of the vacuoles is about 1 ⁇ m and the relative density of the intermediate layer 6 is about 99% of the density of quartz glass.
- outer layer 7 and intermediate layer 6 are reduced by sintering to about 56 mm, resulting in a quartz glass hollow cylinder with an outer diameter of about 202 mm.
- the inner diameter and the wall thickness of the inner layer 4 of the semifinished product 1 thus obtained correspond to the dimensions of the original inner tube 3.
- the measurement of the inner diameter over the entire length of the inner bore resulted in a maximum deviation from the mean value and the original diameter value of less than 0.2 mm.
- FIG. 4 schematically shows a plan view of the transition region between the outer layer 7 and the intermediate layer 6 in the semifinished product 1 according to the invention.
- the vacuoles of the intermediate layer 6 are recognizable as black dots.
- the middle Size of vacuoles is well below 2 microns. Vacuoles with a diameter of more than 10 ⁇ m are not present.
- the pore volume V p (in relative units) in the transition region between the outer layer 7 and the intermediate layer 6 is plotted against the radius (r) of the semifinished product 1. It turns out that the pore volume increases in a relatively narrow range from zero to the maximum value, as it is in the immediate vicinity of the inner layer 5.
- the boundary between the outer layer 7 and the intermediate layer 6 is defined as that line "L" at which the average pore volume has reached a value of 1 / e.
- the semifinished product 1 is cleaned, thereby acidifying the inner wall in hydrofluoric acid, wherein a layer of approximately 30 ⁇ m is etched away from the inner wall 7.
- the semifinished product 1 is then provided in a known rod-in-tube method with a core rod and elongated into a preform. The pores of the intermediate layer 6 thereby completely collapse, so that a region of transparent quartz glass is obtained therefrom.
- an inner tube made of undoped quartz glass instead of an inner tube 3 made of undoped quartz glass, an inner tube made of a quartz glass is used, which is doped with about 3,500 ppm by weight of fluorine.
- a quartz glass tube is commercially available from Heraeus Quarzglas GmbH & Co. KG under the name "F320.”
- the inner tube made of fluorine-doped quartz glass is processed further as explained above with reference to the exemplary embodiment.
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