Apparatus for treating glass optical waveguide fibers
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    玻璃光导纤维处理设备

    公开(公告)号:US3881902A

    公开(公告)日:1975-05-06

    申请号:US39908973

    申请日:1973-09-20

    Inventor: DELUCA ROBERT D

    Abstract: Apparatus for removing contaminants from the surface of a glass optical waveguide fiber and thereafter treating the fiber while preventing the surface from being recontaminated. Contaminants are removed from the surface by subjecting the waveguide to means for bombarding the surface thereof with ions having sufficient energy to remove a surface layer from the fiber. The cleaned fiber may be immediately heat treated to improve the light transmission properties thereof, or it may be coated to prevent recontamination of the surface prior to heat treatment to which the coated fiber may thereafter be subjected.

    Abstract translation: 用于从玻璃光波导纤维的表面除去污染物,然后处理纤维同时防止表面被再污染的装置。 通过使波导通过使具有足够能量的离子轰击其表面的装置从纤维中除去表面层,从表面除去污染物。 清洁的纤维可以立即进行热处理以改善其透光性能,或者可以涂覆以防止在此后经受涂覆的纤维的热处理之前表面的再污染。

    METHOD OF MAKING OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES

    公开(公告)号:CA1047849A

    公开(公告)日:1979-02-06

    申请号:CA221275

    申请日:1975-03-04

    Inventor: DELUCA ROBERT D

    Abstract: METHOD OF MAKING OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES A method of making low loss glass optical waveguides, wherein at least one coating of glass soot is deposited by the flame hydrolysis process on a starting member. The soot coating is heated to its consolidation temperature in an atmosphere containing helium and an amount of chlorine that is effective to substantially remove the water from the glass soot while the soot is being consolidated to form a dense glass layer. The starting member is removed unless it is to form a part of the optical waveguide. The resultant structure, including the dense glass body, is then drawn into a waveguide fiber.

    METHOD OF REMOVING ENTRAPPED GAS AND/OR RESIDUAL WATER FROM GLASS

    公开(公告)号:CA979219A

    公开(公告)日:1975-12-09

    申请号:CA161662

    申请日:1973-01-19

    Inventor: DELUCA ROBERT D

    Abstract: A method of forming an article, such as a low loss optical waveguide, by applying to a starting member a layer of glass soot to form a porous body. The porous body is then placed in a controlled environment in which a predetermined desired concentration of gases is maintained. The porous body is heated below the sintering temperature of the glass to permit entrapped gas to escape therefrom and the temperature is maintained until an equilibrium is reached between the partial pressure of the entrapped gas in the porous body and the partial pressure of the same gas in said environment. Thereafter, the porous body is further heated to at least the sintering temperature of the glass to sinter the soot particles and to form a consolidated dense member which may thereafter be formed into a desired shape while within said environment.

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