System for producing an optical fiber preform with gas volume control
AssigneesNippon Telegraph & Telephone Public Corporation, Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
InventorsMotohiro Nakahara, Tetsuo Miyajiri, Naoki Yoshioka, Toru Kuwahara
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Abstract
A process for producing an optical fiber preform in a muffle furnace by hydrolyzing a gaseous glass forming material with a flame from an oxyhydrogen burner and depositing the resulting soot in a rod shape and an apparatus therefor are described, wherein a gas is supplied to the muffle furnace other than from said burner, and the volume supply of said gas is held constant by controlling the amount of a control gas supplied into an intermediate portion of an exhaust pipe through which the gases formed in the muffle furnace and the fine glass particles that do not deposit in a rod shape are discharged.
Claims5
An improved apparatus for producing an optical fiber preform by the vapor deposition of glass soot onto a starting member, comprising a muffle furnace in which a gaseous glass forming material is hydrolyzed with a flame from an oxyhydrogen burner and the resulting soot is deposited in a rod shape, said muffle furnace being provided with a means defining an opening, a means for supplying treating gas into said muffle furnace to the opening created, an exhaust pipe through which the gases formed in the muffle furnace and the fine glass particles that do not deposit in a rod shape are discharged, wherein the improvement comprises:
- a means for supplying controlling gas into an intermediate portion of said exhaust pipe;
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- a control means provided at said intermediate portion of said exhaust pipe for controlling the amount of said control gas supplied into said intermediate portion of said exhaust pipe to maintain a constant volume supply of the treating gas.
A process for producing an optical fiber preform in a muffle furnace by hydrolyzing a gaseous glass forming material with a flame from an oxyhydrogen burner and depositing the resulting soot in a rod shape, wherein a gas is supplied to the muffle furnace other than from said burner, holding the volume supply of said gas constant by controlling the amount of a control gas supplied into an intermediate portion of an exhaust pipe through which the gases formed in the muffle furnace and the fine glass particles that do not deposit in a rod shape are discharged.
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