Apparatus for the production of hermetically coated optical fiber
CA 2096872 C · Owner: Aikawa, Haruhiko · Inventors: Danzuka, Toshio; Nagayama, Katsuya; Aikawa, Haruhiko
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The present invention is directed to an apparatus for the production of a hermetically coated optical fiber in which a glass preform for an optical fiber is melt drawn in a melt drawing furnace to produce a bare optical fiber which is passed to a reactor where a feed gas is supplied. The bare optical fiber is coated with a thin carbon coating made from the feed gas using a chemical vapour deposition (CVD) method wherein the reactor comprises an upper portion to which the feed gas is supplied, a middle portion in which the CVD method is substantially carried out and a lower portion from which an exhaust gas is withdrawn, and a cross sectional area of the middle portion perpendicular to a …
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- Filed May 25, 1993 and granted November 18, 2003. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended May 25, 2013.
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