Synthetic Fiber
Making Fiber Optics
Did you ever wonder how fiber optics is made? Certainly you know it’s made of glass or plastic, but you can’t just make use of any type of glass, or any type of plastic for that matter. For instance, if you were to create fiber optics from regular table glass, the light that you shine through it would have a difficult time travelling more than a few kilometers, how much more distances required for long distance data transmission. This is because regular glass contains distortions, discolorations, and other impurities that would immediately absorb, reflect, or disperse light before it could travel any great distance. On the other hand, fiber optics is made from very pure glass without the impurities and distortions, which makes light travel very great distances.
The process of making fiber optic glass of the highest purity requires careful control the materials and processes involved. Basically, this involves making the fiber optic heated glass or preform, extracting the optical fiber from preform, and trying the fiber optics.
Step 1. Creating the Fiber Optic Preform. A preform is a cylindrical glass blank that provides the source material from which glass fiber will be drawn in one, continuous strand. Making the preform includes a chemical process known as Modified Chemical Vapor Deposition (MCVD). This process involves bubbling oxygen through various chemical solutions to produce gas that is directed into a hollow, rotating tube made of synthetic silica or quartz.
A torch is moved up and down the rotating tube, resulting in very high temperature that causes the gas to reach with oxygen to form silicon dioxide and germanium dioxide. These two chemicals fuse together inside the rotating tube to form an extremely pure glass. This step takes a few hours before the glass is cooled.
Step 2. Extracting Optical Fiber from Preform. The finished glass preform is fixed at the top of a tower which supports different devices utilized in the fiber drawing process. It begins by lowering one end of the perform into an in-line furnace, and as the lower end begins to melt, it forms a molten glob that is pulled quickly downward by gravity. A thin strand of glass that cools and solidifies fast is following behind the glob.
The glass is then loop through the remainder of the device on the tower and finally, the fiber is attached to a tractor mechanism. The tractor then pulls the glass strand from the preform and at the end of the run, the completed fiber is wound onto a spool.
Step 3. Testing the Fiber Optics. To determine the quality of the finished fiber, the completed fiber optics must undergo a number of tests that involves refractive index profile, fiber geometry inspection, tensile strength, and bandwidth capacity, attenuation at different wavelengths, chromatic dispersion, and operating temperature and humidity range.
These three steps ensure that the fiber optic cables sold in the market are of the highest quality and purity. But fiber optic cables are not enough to make a network. You will need fiber optic devices and transceivers like GLC SX MM and SFP mini GBIC to complete your networking needs. Ensure not to leave these behind.
The Diameters of Natural Hairs and Synthetic Fiber. Part 1/2
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