METHOD FOR PRODUCING DOPING SILICA BODY

• Main Authors: STOCKERT THOMAS EDWARD, MACCHESNEY JOHN BERNETTE, MONBERG ERIC M
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 08.01.2003
• Edition: 7
• Subjects: CHEMISTRY; GLASS; MANUFACTURE, SHAPING, OR SUPPLEMENTARY PROCESSES; METALLURGY; MINERAL OR SLAG WOOL; OPTICAL ELEMENTS, SYSTEMS, OR APPARATUS; OPTICS; PHYSICS

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for producing a silica body with impurities added. SOLUTION: A doping silica core region of a core rod for an optical fiber preform is protected from undesirable fluorine doping during the fluorine doping for an outer silica layer by selectively consolidatin...