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AssigneeSiemens Aktiengesellschaft
InventorsHartmut Schneider, Achim Schoberth
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A method for the manufacture of a preform of barium containing heavy metal fluoride glass comprising a core and a jacket for drawing infrared light waveguides for optical communications technology by casting molten glass onto a predetermined body of solid glass. Hitherto, such a method was executed such that molten core glass was cast into a tube of jacket glass. In order to achieve thicker preforms, one proceeds such here that a solid row of the core glass is surrounded with molten jacket glass. The boundary surface between core and jacket of the generated preform can be improved in the method disclosed herein that the surface of the solid rod is etched before being surrounded with the jacket glass. A nearly perfect boundary surface is obtained by etching with a ZrOCl.sub.2 solution.
In a method for the manufacture of a preform comprising a core of core glass and a jacket of jacket glass for drawing glass fibers by casting molten glass onto a pre-defined body of solid glass, the improvement comprising etching the surface of a solid rod of said core glass and only then surrounding said solid rod of said core glass with molten jacket glass by introducing said solid rod into a cylindrical hollow form having a larger cross-section and composed of material having good thermal conductivity, filling out a resulting annular cavity between said rod and the surrounding hollow form with said molten jacket glass, allowing said molten jacket glass to solidify in said hollow form and subsequently removing the solidified cast member from the hollow form.
In a method for the manufacture of a preform comprising a core of core glass and a jacket of jacket glass for drawing glass fibers by casting molten glass onto a pre-defined body of solid glass, the improvement comprising surrounding a solid rod of said core glass with molten jacket glass by rotating said solid rod about its axis and casting molten jacket glass onto the circumferential surface of said solid rod, said casting there onto being in the form of a radial jet.
A method for the manufacture of a preform for drawing glass fibers comprising a core of core glass and a jacket of jacket glass comprising the steps of:
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