Silica Preform Neck-Down Shape and Glass Fiber Drawing in Optical Fiber Manufacturing Process

Kyoung Jin Kim

doi:10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.488-489.748

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Silica Preform Neck-Down Shape and Glass Fiber Drawing in Optical Fiber Manufacturing Process

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The glass fiber drawing from the silica preform in a draw furnace is one of the important processes in a mass manufacturing system of optical fiber. When a preform of cylindrical shape is fed and heated in draw furnace and very thin glass fiber is pulled from the softened preform by applying a proper amount of draw tension, the preform experiences a drastic diameter change or neck-down shape. In this paper, neck-down shape formation and glass fiber drawing in heated preform is numerically modeled into one-dimensional formulation of momentum balance in order to examine the effects of the silica preform temperature such as the maximum temperature of preform and the cooling rate of glass fiber at high fiber drawing speed. The results show the typical shape of preform neck-down and the draw tension which is comparable to the industry value of approximately 100 g. Also, it is found that the axial location of glass fiber re-solidification sensitively depends on the cooling rate, while the draw tension is insensitive to the cooling rate of glass fiber.

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Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 488-489)

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Kyoung Jin Kim

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Draw Tension, Glass Fiber Drawing, Optical Fiber, Preform Neck-Down

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