Method for manufacturing a primary preform for optical fibres, primary preform, final preform, optical fibre
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국가/구분
United States(US) Patent
등록
국제특허분류(IPC7판)
C03B-037/018
C03B-037/027
출원번호
US-0623182
(2012-09-20)
등록번호
US-8863557
(2014-10-21)
우선권정보
NL-2007447 (2011-09-20)
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/ 주소
Milicevic, Igor
Hartsuiker, Johannes Antoon
Van Stralan, Mattheus Jacobus Nicolaas
출원인 / 주소
Draka Comteq, B.V.
대리인 / 주소
Shumaker, Loop & Kendrick, LLP
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초록
A method for manufacturing a primary preform for an optical fiber wherein conditions are created in the reaction zone such that one or more glass layer packages made up of at least two separate glass layers are deposited on the interior of the substrate tube.
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1. A method for manufacturing a primary preform for an optical fibre, using a plasma chemical internal vapour deposition process, wherein doped or undoped glass-forming precursors are supplied to the interior of a hollow glass substrate tube, a reaction zone in the form of a plasma is moved back and
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A method for manufacturing a primary preform for an optical fibre, using a plasma chemical internal vapour deposition process, wherein doped or undoped glass-forming precursors are supplied to the interior of a hollow glass substrate tube, a reaction zone in the form of a plasma is moved back and forth along the length of the hollow glass substrate tube between a point of reversal near a supply side and a point of reversal near a discharge side of the hollow substrate tube, wherein the substrate tube is positioned in a furnace and wherein such conditions are created in the reaction zone that one or more glass layer packages made up of at least two separate glass layers are deposited on the interior of the substrate tube, the method comprising the following step: defining deposition conditions as a function of a position of the reaction zone, seen in a longitudinal direction of the hollow glass substrate tube, for deposition of at least one glass layer, with the deposition conditions thus defined differing from each other within the deposition of the glass layer, wherein:within a particular glass layer the refractive index value and/or the cross-sectional area of one glass layer obtained by deposition differs from the refractive index value and/or the cross-sectional area of another glass layer obtained by deposition,the defining of deposition conditions comprises setting one or more process parameters selected from the group consisting of: flow of the additional gas to be metered at the supply side, velocity of the reaction zone, intensity of the plasma of the reaction zone, and length of the reaction zone, andthe number of glass layers of each glass layer package is set so that the following condition is met: N≤0.1*λ*Qfinald*Qfibre where N=the number of glass layers in a glass package [-]λ=the minimum wavelength used of the optical fiber [μm]d=the thickness of a glass layer in a glass layer package of a primary preform [μm]Qfinal=the diameter of the final preform produced on the basis of the primary preform [mm]Qfibre=the diameter of the optical fibre [mm]. 2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the deposition conditions of glass layers adjacent to each other within a particular glass layer package differ from each other. 3. The method according to claim 1, wherein an average refractive index value and/or the cross-sectional area of a particular glass layer package made up of a number of individual glass layers obtained by deposition is the combination of the refractive index value and/or the cross-sectional area of each individual glass layer, with the refractive index value and/or the cross-sectional area of at least two such individual glass layers in the glass layer package differing from each other. 4. The method according to claim 1, wherein each glass layer of a respective glass layer package has a thickness, seen in radial direction, that ranges from 0.1 to 10 micrometer. 5. The method according to claim 1, wherein each glass layer of a respective glass layer package has a thickness, seen in radial direction, that ranges from 0.5 to 5 micrometer. 6. The method according to claim 1, wherein the number of glass layers in a glass layer package ranges from 2-100. 7. The method according to claim 1, wherein a deposition length, that is the length of the substrate tube along which the reaction zone is moved between the two points of reversal, is subdivided into separate deposition regions, wherein the respective deposition condition is determined for each deposition region. 8. The method according to claim 7, wherein the deposition condition determined for a deposition region is adjustable during the deposition process. 9. The method according to claim 1, wherein the amount of additional gas is supplied at the supply side of the hollow glass substrate tube in the form of one or more pulses characterised by pulse height and pulse length. 10. The method according to claim 9, wherein the pulse length ranges between 1 ms and 500 ms. 11. The method according to claim 9, wherein the pulse length ranges between 5 ms and 100 ms. 12. The method according to claim 1, wherein the additional gas is selected from the group consisting of: gases that contain one or more refractive index-increasing and/or a refractive index-decreasing dopants, and gases such as oxygen, argon and helium, or a combination of two or more thereof. 13. The method according to claim 1, wherein the dopants are selected from the group consisting of GeCl4, PO2Cl5, N2 CF4, SiF4, C2F6, C4F8, CCl2F2, SiF4, Si2F6, SF6, NF3 and F2. 14. The method according to claim 1, wherein the primary preform comprises at least one preform layer, which preform layer is at least in part built up of glass layer packages, and wherein the preform layer has a substantially constant average refractive index and/or cross-sectional area, seen in radial direction. 15. A method for manufacturing a final preform for an optical fibre, comprising the following steps: i) manufacturing a primary preform for an optical fibre, using a plasma chemical internal vapour deposition process, wherein doped or undoped glass-forming precursors are supplied to the interior of a hollow glass substrate tube, a reaction zone in the form of a plasma is moved back and forth along the length of the hollow glass substrate tube between a point of reversal near a supply side and a point of reversal near a discharge side of the hollow substrate tube, wherein the substrate tube is positioned in a furnace and wherein such conditions are created in the reaction zone that one or more glass layer packages made up of at least two separate glass layers are deposited on the interior of the substrate tube, the method comprising the following step:defining deposition conditions as a function of a position of the reaction zone, seen in a longitudinal direction of the hollow glass substrate tube, for deposition of at least one glass layer, with the deposition conditions thus defined differing from each other within the deposition of the glass layer, wherein:within a particular glass layer the refractive index value and/or the cross-sectional area of one glass layer obtained by deposition differs from the refractive index value and/or the cross-sectional area of another glass layer obtained by deposition,the defining of deposition conditions comprises setting one or more process parameters selected from the group consisting of: flow of the additional gas to be metered at the supply side, velocity of the reaction zone, intensity of the plasma of the reaction zone, and length of the reaction zone, andthe number of glass layers of each glass layer package is set so that the following condition is met: N≤0.1*λ*Qfinald*Qfibre where N=the number of glass layers in a glass package [-]λ=the minimum wavelength used of the optical fiber [μm]d=the thickness of a glass layer in a glass layer package of a primary preform [μm]Qfinal=the diameter of the final preform produced on the basis of the primary preform [mm] Qfibre=the diameter of the optical fibre [mm]; ii) contracting the primary preform obtained in step i) into a solid primary preform under the influence of a heat source; andiii) optionally applying an additional amount of glass to the outer side of the solid primary preform obtained in step ii) so as to form the final preform. 16. The method according to claim 15, wherein the ratio between the cross-sectional area of the additional glass layer and the cross-sectional area of the preform layers is constant along the length of the final preform. 17. The method according to claim 15, further comprising forming an optical fibre by heating one end of the final preform and subsequently drawing the heated final preform to form the optical fibre therefrom.
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