Abstract:
An optical fiber silica glass base material comprising a core formed of silica glass doped with a positive dopant that increases a refractive index; an intermediate layer adjacent to the core and surrounding the core on a radial outside thereof; a trench layer adjacent to the intermediate layer, surrounding the intermediate layer on a radial outside thereof, and formed of silica glass doped with a negative dopant that decreases a refractive index; and a cladding layer adjacent to the trench layer, surrounding the trench layer on a radial outside thereof, and formed of silica glass. Thickness of the intermediate layer in a radial direction is greater than thickness of the trench layer, and a region of the intermediate layer nearer the core is more heavily doped with the positive dopant and/or a region of the intermediate layer nearer the trench layer is more heavily doped with the negative dopant.
Abstract:
A method for manufacturing an optical fiber preform, including: a) providing a lining tube as a substrate tube, and doping and depositing by a PCVD or an MCVD process; b) in the reacting gas of silicon tetrachloride and oxygen, introducing a fluorine-containing gas for fluorine doping, introducing germanium tetrachloride for germanium doping, ionizing the reacting gas in the lining tube through microwaves to form plasma, depositing the plasma on the inner wall of the lining tube in the form of glass; c) after the completion of deposition, processing the deposited lining tube into a solid core rod by melting contraction through an electric heating furnace; d) sleeving the solid core rod into a pure quartz glass jacketing tube and manufacturing the two into an optical fiber preform; and e) allowing the effective diameter d of the optical fiber preform to become between 95 and 205 mm.
Abstract:
A method for producing quartz glass cylinders includes producing soot bodies using depositing burners to deposit SiO2 particles for mass deposition on a rotating substrate and vitrifying the soot bodies to form quartz glass cylinders. Prior to producing the soot bodies, the following steps are carried out: producing first and second test soot bodies, determining the density distribution of the first test soot body in the axial direction; vitrifying the second test soot body to generate a test quartz glass cylinder; determining the mass distribution of the test quartz glass cylinder in the axial direction; and setting the mass deposition of SiO2 particles to be deposited as a function of the axial mass distribution of the test quartz glass cylinder. As such, the mass distribution of the produced and vitrified soot bodies is improved and/or made more homogeneous relative to the axial mass distribution of the test quartz glass cylinder.
Abstract:
An inexpensive low-attenuation optical fiber 1 suitable for use as an optical transmission line in an optical access network is a silica based glass optical fiber and includes a core 11 including the center axis, an optical cladding 12 surrounding the core, and a jacket 13 surrounding the optical cladding. The core contains GeO2 and has a relative refractive index difference Δcore, based on the optical cladding, greater than or equal to 0.35% and less than or equal to 0.50% and has a refractive index volume v greater than or equal to 0.045 μm2 and less than or equal to 0.095 μm2. The jacket has a relative refractive index difference ΔJ greater than or equal to 0.03% and less than or equal to 0.20%. Glass constituting the core has a fictive temperature higher than or equal to 1400° C. and lower than or equal to 1590° C. Residual stress in the core is compressive stress that has an absolute value greater than or equal to 5 MPa.
Abstract:
Common solar radiation receivers are equipped with a chamber for transmission of an operating gas which is directed along to an absorber for solar radiation for thermal absorption. The absorber has a dome-shaped entry window made of quartz glass, wherein the inner side facing the absorber assumes a nominal interior temperature Ti of at least 950° C. during proper use, preferably at least 1000° C., whereas the outer side facing away from the absorber is exposed to the environment and subject to risk of devitrification. The invention relates to modifying the known solar radiation receiver so that a high absorber temperature can be set and thus a high efficiency of the solar thermal heating is enabled, without increasing the risk of devitrification in the region of the outer side of the entry window.
Abstract:
Provided is a quartz glass manufacturing method that involves using one or more burners, supplying hydrogen and oxygen to the one or more burners to generate an oxyhydrogen flame, introducing a silicide into the oxyhydrogen flame, forming a porous base material by depositing silicon dioxide generated from a flame hydrolysis reaction with the silicide, and heating and sintering the porous base material to form transparent glass, the method comprising supplying hydrogen that is stored or made at a normal temperature to the one or more burners; controlling a hydrogen flow rate using a measurement apparatus or control apparatus that performs measurement based on heat capacity of a gas; vaporizing liquid hydrogen stored in a low-temperature storage chamber, and supplying the vaporized liquid hydrogen to the one or more burners as backup hydrogen; switching from the hydrogen to the backup hydrogen; and when switching, adjusting the hydrogen flow rate to a value obtained by multiplying the hydrogen flow rate immediately after switching by a predetermined correction coefficient.
Abstract:
The fibre comprises a core (2) having an index N and diameter of 10 μm or more, surrounded by a ring (4) having an index N+Δn and thickness ΔR, and cladding (6) surrounding the ring and comprising for example air gaps (8). According to the invention: Δn≧10−3 and ΔR=α/(Δn)β [1] where: 5×10−4 μm≦α≦5×10−2 μm and 0.5≦β≦1.5. The numbers α and β are dependent on the wavelength λ of the light guided by the fibre, the number of missing gaps therein, the diameter d of the gaps, the spacing Λ thereof and N. To design the fibre, λ, the number of missing gaps, d/Λ, the core doping content, Λ0 and Δn are chosen; and ΔR is determined using equation [1] so as to obtain a flattened fundamental mode.
Abstract:
A process for manufacturing an object made of a constituent material obtained from a sol-gel solution, the process including, successively: a) introducing the sol-gel solution into a mold of the object to be manufactured; b) gelling the sol-gel solution; c) drying the gel obtained in b) in the mold, by which the gel is converted into the constituent material of the object, wherein the mold includes a closed chamber and includes a material configured to allow evacuation of gases formed during b) and/or c).
Abstract:
A single-mode transmission optical fibre includes a central core region radially outwardly from a centerline to a radius r1 and having a positive relative refractive index Δ1; a first inner cladding region extending radially outwardly from the central core to a radius r2 and having a negative relative refractive index Δ2; a second inner cladding region extending radially outwardly from the first inner cladding region to a radius r3 and having a non-negative relative refractive index Δ3; an intermediate cladding region extending radially outwardly from the second inner cladding region to a radius r4 having a negative relative refractive index Δ4 larger in absolute value than the relative refractive index Δ2; and an outer cladding region extending radially outwardly from the intermediate cladding region and having a non-negative relative refractive index Δ5; wherein the relative refractive index Δ2 of the first inner cladding region is −0.1·10−3 to −1.0·10−3 and the relative refractive index Δ4 of the intermediate cladding is −3.0·10−3 to −5.0·10−3.
Abstract:
A method for forming a silica glass blank includes generating soot using an array of soot producing burners, directing the soot along a first direction onto a bait, collecting the soot on the bait, imparting relative oscillatory motion having a repeat period between the array of soot producing burners and the bait along a second direction orthogonal to the first direction while collecting the soot, and offsetting the relative oscillatory motion by a selected distance along the second direction after each repeat period.