• DocumentCode
    1019007
  • Title

    Simultaneous dehydration with consolidation for v.a.d. method

  • Author

    Chida, K. ; Hanawa, F. ; Nakahara, M. ; Inagaki, N.

  • Author_Institution
    NTT Ibaraki Electrical Communication Laboratory, Tokai, Japan
  • Volume
    15
  • Issue
    25
  • fYear
    1979
  • Firstpage
    835
  • Lastpage
    836
  • Abstract
    A technique has been developed for simultaneously dehydrating and consolidating preforms prepared by the v.a.d. method of optical-fibre fabrication. The residual OH content has been reduced to 0.03 p.p.m. By controlling the dehydration process, no depletion of GeO2 has been observed.
  • Keywords
    chemical vapour deposition; optical fibres; GeO2 depletion; consolidation; optical fibre fabrication; porous preforms; simultaneous dehydration; soot deposition; vapour phase axial deposition;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Electronics Letters
  • Publisher
    iet
  • ISSN
    0013-5194
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1049/el:19790593
  • Filename
    4256155