OPTICAL WAVEGUIDE MANUFACTURE,申请号CA19840470963-传众专利搜索

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDE MANUFACTURE

申请公布号：CA1271316(A)

申请号：CA19840470963

申请日期：1984.12.21

申请公布日期：1990.07.10

申请人：

NORTHERN TELECOM LIMITED

发明人：ABE, KOICHI

分类号：G02B6/00;C03B37/014;C03B37/018;(IPC1-7):C03B37/018

主分类号：G02B6/00

摘要：<p>OPTICAL WAVEGUIDE MANUFACTURE Optical waveguide having a fused silica core and a fluorine doped silica cladding is made by heating a cylinder of silica in fluorine, the cylinder initially having an outer annular particulate or porous region which is dried by the fluorine and into which fluorine diffuses to lower the refractive index of the silica when fused. The cylinder is made by depositing particulate silica onto a mandrel, drying the silica in chlorine, and heating the silica to desify it. Further particulate silica is deposited and is when heated in a fluorine-containing gas to dry, fluorine diffuse, and sinter the porous outer part of the silica. The resulting tubular silica preform is heated to collapse the tubular preform into a rod from which optical waveguide is drawn, the waveguide having a fluorine doped silica cladding. In one alternative the silica cylinder is made by depositing onto a mandrel a first layer of relatively dense silica followed by a second layer of less dense particulate silica so that fluorine diffuses preferentially into the lower density material. In another alternative, the silica cylinder is made by depositing particulate silica directly onto d high purity fused silica rod without sung a mandrel, the deposited silica then being dried and subjected to fluorine diffusion.</p>