JPS58213649A - Method for spinning optical fiber by sensing defective part - Google Patents

Method for spinning optical fiber by sensing defective part

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Publication number
JPS58213649A
JPS58213649A JP9600582A JP9600582A JPS58213649A JP S58213649 A JPS58213649 A JP S58213649A JP 9600582 A JP9600582 A JP 9600582A JP 9600582 A JP9600582 A JP 9600582A JP S58213649 A JPS58213649 A JP S58213649A
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optical fiber
defective part
rear end
spinning
light signals
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Inventor
Nobuo Inagaki
稲垣 伸夫
Kazuaki Yoshida
和昭 吉田
Takashi Namikawa
並河 尚
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Furukawa Electric Co Ltd
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp
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Furukawa Electric Co Ltd
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp
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    • CCHEMISTRY; METALLURGY
    • C03GLASS; MINERAL OR SLAG WOOL
    • C03BMANUFACTURE, SHAPING, OR SUPPLEMENTARY PROCESSES
    • C03B37/00Manufacture or treatment of flakes, fibres, or filaments from softened glass, minerals, or slags
    • C03B37/01Manufacture of glass fibres or filaments
    • C03B37/02Manufacture of glass fibres or filaments by drawing or extruding, e.g. direct drawing of molten glass from nozzles; Cooling fins therefor
    • C03B37/025Manufacture of glass fibres or filaments by drawing or extruding, e.g. direct drawing of molten glass from nozzles; Cooling fins therefor from reheated softened tubes, rods, fibres or filaments, e.g. drawing fibres from preforms
    • C03B37/0253Controlling or regulating

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  • Manufacture, Treatment Of Glass Fibers (AREA)
  • Testing Of Optical Devices Or Fibers (AREA)

Abstract

PURPOSE:To sense the presence or absence and size of a defective part with certainty, by giving light signals from the rear end of a rod in spinning a preform rod, reflecting the light signals from the defective part to sense the defective part. CONSTITUTION:A quartz type perform rod 1 having the rear end clamped by a base material feed apparature 2 is introduced into a spinning furnace 3, and softened under heating to give an optical fiber 4, which is then passed through a fiber diameter measuring apparatus 5, coating apparatus 6, hardening furnace 7, fiber diameter measuring apparatus 8, capstan 9 and dancer roller 10 and wound onto a drum 11. Light signals are given from the rear end of the preform rod 1 through the optical fiber 4, reflected from a defective part of the optical fiber 4, passed through a light transmitting member 12 provided at the rear end of the preform rod 1, and introduced into a back scatter measuring apparatus 13 to calculate the time required for the incident light signals and the reflected light signals to reciprocate and sense the defective part.

Description

【発明の詳細な説明】 本発明Cさ光ファイバの紡糸方法に関するものでるり、
さらに詳L〈は当該紡糸工程と同期して光ファイバの欠
陥箇所を検出するようにした方法に関する。
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION The present invention relates to a method for spinning optical fibers.
Further details L< relate to a method for detecting defective locations in an optical fiber in synchronization with the spinning process.

既知の通り、光ファイバはプリフォームロッド(光フア
イバ用母材)を加熱延伸するといつた紡糸工程を介して
製造されるが、こうして光ファイバを製造するとき、光
ファイバには傷や気泡などによる欠陥部が不測の箇所で
発生する仁とがある。
As is known, optical fibers are manufactured through a spinning process such as heating and stretching a preform rod (base material for optical fibers). There are defects in which defects occur in unexpected locations.

もちろんこれらの欠陥部があると、光ファイバの機械的
強度は低下し、伝送ロスも増力けることになる。
Of course, the presence of these defects reduces the mechanical strength of the optical fiber and increases transmission loss.

それ故、光ファイバに欠陥部が発生したか否か、その欠
陥箇所(欠陥部の位置)はどとであるかなどを知る必要
があり、これらが判明すれば、元ファイバの実用に際し
て欠陥部が切除できることになる。
Therefore, it is necessary to know whether or not a defect has occurred in the optical fiber, and where the defect is (location of the defect). can be removed.

従来、紡糸工程と同時して光フアイバ欠陥部の有無、欠
陥箇所を検出する方法はすでに実施されている。
Conventionally, methods have already been implemented for detecting the presence or absence of defective portions of optical fibers and detecting defective locations simultaneously with the spinning process.

その1つはプリフォームロッドの後端から光ファイバに
わたって光を入射し、そして欠陥部が発生した場合、そ
の欠陥部において上記入射光による輝点が生じるのを観
測しようとするものであり、他の1つはプリフォームロ
ッドの後端かう光ファイバの先端にわたって光を通し、
その光フアイバ先端側での受光レベル(欠陥部がろれば
受光レベルは低下する。)を観測しようとするものであ
る。
One is to enter light from the rear end of a preform rod across an optical fiber, and when a defect occurs, to observe the occurrence of a bright spot due to the incident light at the defect. One is to pass light across the tip of the optical fiber through the back end of the preform rod;
The objective is to observe the level of light received at the tip of the optical fiber (if the defective part is damaged, the level of light received decreases).

しかし輝点機、測方式の場合、輝点の有無、輝点位置の
読みとりにより欠陥部の有無、欠陥箇所が判明するとし
ても、紡糸後の光ファイバをその外側から観測する関係
上、紡糸炉よりも下位に必要な測定装置を配置しなけれ
ば女らない制約を受け、殊に紡糸炉の直後には早期防護
被覆を目的とした光ファイバのコーティング装置があり
、その紡糸炉およびコーティング装置間の狭小なスペー
スに光ファイバの線径測定器′も配置されているから、
このような狭小スペースへ輝点測定装置を割りこませる
にはかkりの無理が生じ、強いてこれを・行なった場合
には、1腑径測定器あるいは輝点測定装置のいずれか一
方が高温の紡糸炉に接近し過ぎ、熱に゛よる測定不安定
を惹起する。
However, in the case of a bright spot measuring method, even if the presence or absence of a defective part and the defect location can be determined by reading the presence or absence of a bright spot and the position of the bright spot, since the optical fiber after spinning is observed from the outside, the spinning furnace In particular, immediately after the spinning furnace there is an optical fiber coating device for the purpose of early protective coating, and there is no need to place the necessary measuring equipment at a lower level than the spinning furnace. Because the optical fiber diameter measuring device' is also placed in a narrow space,
It would be extremely difficult to fit the bright spot measuring device into such a narrow space, and if you were forced to do this, either the diameter measuring device or the bright spot measuring device would become hot. If it is too close to the spinning furnace, it will cause measurement instability due to heat.

もちろん輝点測定装置をコーティング装置よりも下位に
配置したのでは、光ファイバのコーテイング膜により輝
点測定が阻まれる。
Of course, if the bright spot measuring device is placed below the coating device, bright spot measurement will be blocked by the coating film of the optical fiber.

一方、受光レベル観測方式では、その受光レベルが所定
値よりもダウンしたことにより欠陥部の発生したことが
判明するとしても、その欠陥箇所がどこでろるかといっ
たことは不明であり、満足のいく測定結果が得られない
On the other hand, with the received light level observation method, even if it is determined that a defective part has occurred because the received light level has fallen below a predetermined value, it is unclear where the defective part is. No measurement results are obtained.

本発明はこうした問題点に対処すべくなされたものでろ
、す、以下その具体的方法を図示の実施例により説明す
る。
The present invention has been made to address these problems, and a specific method thereof will be described below with reference to illustrated embodiments.

図において、まず紡糸工程から説明すると、石英系のプ
リフォームロ?白1)は上下動自在な母材供給装置(2
)を介してその後端(上端)がクランプされており、当
該ロッド(1)は低速で降下する母材供給装置(2)に
よりその先端(下端)カ≧ら紡糸炉(3)内へ挿入され
ていく〇 上記紡糸炉(3)内で加熱軟化されたプリフォームロッ
ド(1)の先端は高速の引取力を介して延伸され、これ
により光ファイバ(4)となる。
In the figure, first we will explain the spinning process. White 1) is a base material supply device (2) that can move up and down.
), and the rod (1) is inserted into the spinning furnace (3) from its tip (lower end) by the base material feeder (2) that descends at low speed. The tip of the preform rod (1) heated and softened in the spinning furnace (3) is drawn using a high-speed drawing force, thereby becoming an optical fiber (4).

以下、光ファイバ(4)は線径測定器(5)を通過した
後、つぎのコーティング装置(6)によりシリコーン樹
脂などのコーテイング膜が形成され、その後コーテイン
グ膜の硬化炉(7)、線径測定器(8)、キャプスタン
+9)、ダンサローラQ(Iを経由して巻取ドラムIで
巻きとられる。
After the optical fiber (4) passes through a wire diameter measuring device (5), a coating film such as a silicone resin is formed in the next coating device (6), and then a coating film hardening furnace (7) and a wire diameter measuring device (5) are used. It is wound up by a winding drum I via a measuring device (8), a capstan +9), and a dancer roller Q (I).

本発明では上記のようにして光ファイバ(4)を紡糸し
ているとき、プリフォームロッド+11の後端から光フ
ァイバ(4)にわたって光信号(光/9ルス)を定常的
に発信する。
In the present invention, while spinning the optical fiber (4) as described above, an optical signal (light/9 lus) is constantly transmitted from the rear end of the preform rod +11 to the optical fiber (4).

上記の光信号は通常、プリフォームロッド(1)の後端
側へ反射されることはないが、光ファイバ(4)に傷や
気泡などによる欠陥部が発生すると、その欠陥部で上記
光信号が反射され、プリフォームロッド(1)の後端側
へもどされるようになる。
Normally, the above optical signal is not reflected toward the rear end of the preform rod (1), but if a defect such as a scratch or a bubble occurs in the optical fiber (4), the above optical signal is reflected and returned to the rear end side of the preform rod (1).

そこで本発明では、上記のごとく反射される光信号をプ
リフォームロッド(1)の後端側で受信するようにし、
これを受信したことにより光ファイバ(4)に欠陥部が
発生したのを知得するとともにプリフォームロッド(1
)の後端側を基点として入射光信号と反射光信号との往
復時間を演算することによりその欠陥部の位置すなわち
欠陥箇所を検出するのである。
Therefore, in the present invention, the reflected optical signal as described above is received at the rear end side of the preform rod (1),
By receiving this, it is known that a defect has occurred in the optical fiber (4), and the preform rod (1)
) The position of the defective portion, that is, the defective portion, is detected by calculating the round-trip time between the incident optical signal and the reflected optical signal using the rear end side of the defective portion as a reference point.

具体的な検出は、プリフォームロッド(すの後端に光フ
ァイバ、バンドルファイバなどの導光部材aりを介して
バックスキャツタ−測定器a3を接続することにより行
なう。
Specific detection is performed by connecting a backscatter measuring device A3 to the rear end of a preform rod via a light guiding member such as an optical fiber or a bundle fiber.

このバックスキャツタ−測定器a3は光信号の発信部と
、反射された光信号の受信部と、反射された光信号の光
路長を測一定し、演算する演算部とを備えており、した
がって当該測定器α邊に工れd1前述した光信号の発信
、その反射信号の受信、欠陥箇所の検出などが行なえ、
また、反射信号のレベルにより欠陥部の大きさも検出で
きる。
This backscatter measuring device a3 is equipped with an optical signal transmitting section, a reflected optical signal receiving section, and a calculating section that measures and calculates the optical path length of the reflected optical signal. It is possible to transmit the optical signal mentioned above, receive the reflected signal, detect defective parts, etc.
Furthermore, the size of the defective portion can also be detected based on the level of the reflected signal.

もちろん光信号の発信系とその反射信号の一受信系とは
二系統に分けてこれらをプリフォームロッド(1)の後
端に接続するようにしてもよい。
Of course, the optical signal transmission system and the reflected signal reception system may be divided into two systems and connected to the rear end of the preform rod (1).

以上説明した通り、本発明方法はプリフォームロッドを
加熱延伸することにより光フ・アイμを紡糸する方法に
おいて、上記紡糸時、プリンオームロッドの後端から光
ファイバにわたって光信号を発信し、該光ファイバの欠
陥部で反射された上記光信号をプリフォームロッドの後
端側で受信してその欠陥箇所を検出することを特徴とし
ているから、欠陥部の有無、その大きさ、欠陥箇所(欠
陥部の位置)などがすべて判明するようになり、しかも
当該検出はプリフォームロッドの後端側で行なわれるか
ら、必要な測定機器は紡糸炉上位の余分人スペースを利
用して無理なく配置でき、もちろんこれら測定機器は紡
糸炉の熱影響を受けることなく、シたがって正確で安定
した検出が実現できる。
As explained above, the method of the present invention is a method of spinning an optical fiber μ by heating and stretching a preform rod. The optical signal reflected by the defective part of the optical fiber is received at the rear end of the preform rod and the defective part is detected. Since the detection is performed at the rear end of the preform rod, the necessary measuring equipment can be easily placed using the extra space above the spinning furnace. Of course, these measuring instruments are not affected by the heat of the spinning furnace, so accurate and stable detection can be achieved.

【図面の簡単な説明】[Brief explanation of the drawing]

図面は本発明方法の1実施例を示した略示説明図でおる
。 (1)・・l・プリフォームロッド (3)・・・・・紡糸炉 (4)の・・Φ・光ファイバ (la・・・・・導光部材
The drawings are schematic illustrations showing one embodiment of the method of the present invention. (1)...l・Preform rod (3)......Φ・optical fiber (la...light guide member of the spinning furnace (4)

Claims (1)

【特許請求の範囲】[Claims] プリフォームロッドを加熱延伸することにより光ファ戸
バを紡糸する方法において、上記紡糸時、プリフォーム
ロッドの後端から光ファイバにわたって光信号を発信し
、該光ファイバの欠陥部で反射された上記光信号をプリ
フォームロッドの後端側で受信してその欠陥箇所を検出
することを特徴とした欠陥部検出式光フアイバ紡糸方法
In a method of spinning an optical fiber by heating and stretching a preform rod, during the spinning, an optical signal is transmitted from the rear end of the preform rod to the optical fiber, and the optical signal reflected from the defective part of the optical fiber is transmitted. Defect detection type optical fiber spinning method, characterized by receiving optical signals at the rear end of the preform rod and detecting the defect location□
JP9600582A 1982-06-04 1982-06-04 Method for spinning optical fiber by sensing defective part Pending JPS58213649A (en)

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