Optical Fiber Drawing Process Model Using an Analytical Neck-Down Profile

Mawardi, A.; Pitchumani, R.

doi:10.1109/jphot.2010.2052454

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“…For more details of studies on thermal drawing, see Refs. [92][93][94][95][96][97][98][99][100][101]. Table 2 [24,42,102-109] lists some of the critical thermomechanical characteristics that impact thermal fiber drawing for several optical materials, including silica, Schott SF6, the fluoride glass ZBLAN, the chalcogenide glass As 2 S 3 , polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA), and polyethersulfone (PES).…”

Section: Criteria For Drawing An Infrared Fibermentioning

confidence: 99%

Infrared fibers

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Infrared (IR) fibers offer a versatile approach to guiding and manipulating light in the IR spectrum, which is becoming increasingly more prominent in a variety of scientific disciplines and technological applications. Despite well-established efforts on the fabrication of IR fibers in past decades, a number of remarkable breakthroughs have recently rejuvenated the field-just as related areas in IR optical technology are reaching maturation. In this review, we describe both the history and recent developments in the design and fabrication of IR fibers, including IR glass and single-crystal fibers, multimaterial fibers, and fibers that exploit the transparency window of traditional crystalline semiconductors. This interdisciplinary review will be of interest to researchers in optics and photonics, materials science, and electrical engineering.

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Section: Criteria For Drawing An Infrared Fibermentioning

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“…In theory, the set of Navier-Stokes coupled differential equations can be used to describe the neck down region viscous fluid flow of the MOF draw process to model the shape of the final expected fiber geometry [22,23]. These equations describe how the velocity, pressure, temperature, and density of a moving fluid are related as well as how these quantities are transferred inside the physical system due to diffusion and convection.…”

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“…It is not the intention of this paper to describe the draw process of MOFs, as this has already been done by several studies [22][23][24][25]. Instead, we describe how the analytical model provided by Fitt et al [26] can be used to predict suitable fiber draw conditions when applied to multihole MOF geometries.…”

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Predicting the drawing conditions for Microstructured Optical Fiber fabrication

Kostecki¹,

Ebendorff-Heidepriem²,

Warren‐Smith³

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Opt. Mater. Express

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The efficient and accurate fabrication of Microstructured optical fibers (MOFs) requires a practical understanding of the 'draw process' beyond what is achievable by trial and error, which requires the ability to predict the experimental drawing parameters needed to produce the desired final geometry. Our results show that the Fitt et al. fluid-mechanics model for describing the draw process of a single axisymmetric capillary fiber provides practical insights when applied to more complex multi-hole symmetric and asymmetric MOF geometries. By establishing a method to relate the multi-hole MOF geometry to a capillary and understanding how material temperature varies with the draw tower temperature profile, it was found that analytical equations given by the Fitt model could be used to predict the parameters necessary for the chosen structure. We show how this model provides a practical framework that contributes to the efficient and accurate fabrication of the desired MOF geometries by predicting suitable fiber draw conditions.

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“…Later computational research efforts adopted more sophisticated computational schemes for the prediction of neck-down profile formation which is interactively associated with the two-dimensional axisymmetric thermal modeling of radiative preform heating and convective flow of purge gas inside the draw furnace (Cheng and Jaluria, 2005;Chen and Jaluria, 2009;Lee et al, 2006;Mawardi and Pitchumani, 2010;Kim et al,, 2012). The other approach in predicting neck-down profile was to treat the glass preform deformation as free surface flow which profile was determined by kinematic condition (Wei et al, 2004).…”

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Numerical modeling and analysis of glass fiber drawing process from large sized silica preform

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Choi

Kwak

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As fiberoptics industries have been attempting to use a silica preform of larger diameter in order to reduce facility down time and increase optical fiber manufacturing productivity, this computational study investigates how the use of large sized preform in sized up draw furnace affects high speed glass fiber drawing process. Present computational model for glass fiber drawing simulations employs iterative scheme between one-dimensional momentum balance model for neck-down profile of heated and softened preform and two-dimensional axisymmetric thermo-fluid computations of convective and radiative heat transport for preform heating and purge gas flow inside muffle tube. Prediction of preform neck-down shape for 10 cm diameter preform has been verified with measured profile from actual optical fiber drawing test. The effects of larger preform diameter up to 20 cm are appreciated and discussed on temperature distribution of preform and drawn glass fiber and fiber draw tension. This study also shows that fine control of heating condition is necessary to maintain proper amount of draw tension in high precision glass fiber drawing.

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Optical Fiber Drawing Process Model Using an Analytical Neck-Down Profile

Cited by 24 publications

References 11 publications

Infrared fibers

Infrared fibers

Predicting the drawing conditions for Microstructured Optical Fiber fabrication

Numerical modeling and analysis of glass fiber drawing process from large sized silica preform

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