Apparatus and method for overcladding optical fiber preform rod

Details Apparatus and method for overcladding optical fiber preform rod Apparatus and method for overcladding optical fiber preform rod

1998-03-27

2000-04-25

Silverman, Stanley S.

Glass manufacturing

Processes of manufacturing fibers, filaments, or preforms

Process of manufacturing optical fibers, waveguides, or...

65428, 65377, 65529, C03B 37028, C03B 3710, C03B 3707, C03C 2502

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060530138

ABSTRACT:
There are provided an optical fiber rod overcladding apparatus and method, and an optical fiber drawing method. In the preform rod overcladding method, a preform rod is clamped in a top chuck and leveled, and a glass tube is mounted in a bottom chuck and leveled. The preform rod is coaxially inserted into a glass tube. Then, the glass tube is preheated by the furnace and heated by the burner until the glass tube reaches a softening point. The preform rod is completely sealed in the glass tube by sucking air in a clearance between the preform rod and the glass tube by application of a negative vacuum pressure. Thus, a preform is completed.

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David Smithgall and Daryl Myers, Drawing Lightguide Fiber, Western Electric Eng., vol. 24, No. 1, 1980.

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