Abstract:
Provided is hydrogen supply equipment that, when switching hydrogen supplied to equipment using hydrogen from (i) hydrogen produced at a normal temperature or hydrogen stored at a normal temperature to (ii) hydrogen stored at a low temperature, supplies the equipment using hydrogen with normal hydrogen obtained by returning the hydrogen at the low temperature to a normal temperature and then passing this hydrogen through equipment for accelerating a conversion from parahydrogen to orthohydrogen.
Abstract:
A method for manufacturing a preform having a core and a multilayer clad, includes covering a circumference of a rod including at least the core and an inner clad layer with a first tube including at least a high viscosity clad layer, and unifying the rod and the first tube by heating and contracting the first tube.
Abstract:
A method of manufacturing an optical fiber base material includes: forming a porous glass base material by depositing glass particles; providing a vessel which employs a composite tube, the composite tube including a portion formed by jacketing a first quartz glass containing aluminum equal to or less than 0.01 ppm with a second quartz glass containing aluminum equal to or more than 15 ppm; introducing dehydration reaction gas and inert gas into the vessel; heating the jacketed portion in the vessel which contains the dehydration reaction gas and the inert gas; and inserting the porous glass base material into the heated vessel to dehydrate and sinter the porous glass base material.
Abstract:
An optical fiber includes a clad portion and a core portion surrounded by the clad portion. Here, the clad portion is formed by substantially pure quartz, and the core portion has a higher refractive index than the clad portion. The optical fiber is characterized in that a relative refractive index difference of a center of the core portion falls within a range from 0.15% to 0.30%, and a maximum relative refractive index difference of the core portion falls within a range from 0.4% to 0.6%. Here, it is preferable that an average relative refractive index difference of the core portion falls within a range from 0.30% to 0.40%. Here, a mode field diameter of the optical fiber falls within a range from 8.6 μm to 9.5 μm at 1310 nm, and a cable cutoff wavelength of the optical fiber is equal to or lower than 1260 nm. Note that, after the optical fiber is subjected to hydrogen aging, a loss of the optical fiber is preferably equal to or lower than 0.4 dB/km at 1383 nm.
Abstract:
A manufacturing method of an optical fiber base material 2 according to a VAD method includes: detecting a tip position of a soot core by means of a discrete value; averaging the value of the detected tip position by a predetermined time; and adjusting a manufacturing condition of the soot core so that the averaged value of the tip position is constant, where in the adjusting step, the manufacturing condition is sequentially adjusted so that a difference between the averaged value of the tip position and a value of a target position set between two adjacent values of the tip position discretely detectable in advance is 0.
Abstract:
An optical fiber includes a clad portion and a core portion surrounded by the clad portion. Here, the clad portion is formed by substantially pure quartz, and the core portion has a higher refractive index than the clad portion. The optical fiber is characterized in that a relative refractive index difference of a center of the core portion falls within a range from 0.15% to 0.30%, and a maximum relative refractive index difference of the core portion falls within a range from 0.4% to 0.6%. Here, it is preferable that an average relative refractive index difference of the core portion falls within a range from 0.30% to 0.40%. Here, a mode field diameter of the optical fiber falls within a range from 8.6 μm to 9.5 μm at 1310 nm, and a cable cutoff wavelength of the optical fiber is equal to or lower than 1260 nm. Note that, after the optical fiber is subjected to hydrogen aging, a loss of the optical fiber is preferably equal to or lower than 0.4 dB/km at 1383 nm.
Abstract:
There are provided an optical fiber processing apparatus, a processing method, and an optical fiber capable of monitoring a process of an optical fiber by gas containing at least deuterium and simultaneously detecting the termination of the process. The apparatus for processing an optical fiber in a gas atmosphere includes a door of a treatment container that puts the optical fiber in and out, a gas introducing port, a gas exhausting port, and a sampling fiber taking-out port. Further, the apparatus includes a light source that is connected to the optical fiber drawn from the sampling fiber taking-out port, and a light power meter that measures an absorption loss. In order to judge the termination of the gas process, it is preferable to include mechanism that monitors a value of the light power meter and judges the termination from the change of the value.
Abstract:
An apparatus for fabricating a soot preform for an optical fiber. The soot preform is fabricated by depositing glass particles on a starting rod capable of being rotated and pulled up. The apparatus comprises elements as follows. A reaction chamber is used for depositing the glass particles on the starting rod. An upper room is located above the reaction chamber for receiving the soot preform formed in the upper portion of the reaction chamber. At least one core burner is installed in the reaction chamber. A gas-supplying inlet is located in the top part of the sidewall of the reaction chamber closest to burner(s), and a gas-exhausting outlet is located in the top part of another sidewall opposite to the gas-supplying inlet. In addition, at least one cladding burner is installed in the reaction chamber. Thus, the exhausting efficiency for the stray glass particles is increased and the bubbles and impurities in the resulting preform are reduced such that the optical property in the lengthwise direction is stable.
Abstract:
Even if an optical fiber obtained by drawing a preform is exposed to hydrogen atmosphere, an OH peak in the optical fiber at wavelength of about 1385 nm hardly rises regardless of the condition of drawing.