Optical fiber manufacturing technique

Details Optical fiber manufacturing technique Optical fiber manufacturing technique

1986-09-22

1988-08-02

Schor, Kenneth M.

Glass manufacturing

Processes

Forming product or preform from molten glass

65 311, 65 12, C03B 3702, C03B 37023

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047611685

ABSTRACT:
The speed at which optical fibers can be drawn and coated is significantly increased by efficiently stripping the gas boundary layer entrained by the moving fiber. The stripping is periodically repeated to ensure that the entrained flow is not re-established.

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patent: 4613521 (1986-09-01), Smith
"Cooling and Bubble-Free Coating of Optical Fibers at a High Drawing Rate", Journal of Lightwave Technology, LT-4, C. M. G. Jochem and J. W. C. Van Der Ligt, 1986, pp. 739-742.

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