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Number: 65/428
Name: Glass manufacturing > Processes of manufacturing fibers, filaments, or preforms > Process of manufacturing optical fibers, waveguides, or preforms thereof > Consolidating preform (e.g., sintering, etc.) > Collapsing tube
Description: Processes including a step causing an innermost surface of a tube to cave in upon itself.


Patents under this class:
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Patent Number Title Of Patent Date Issued
7266275 Nonlinear optical fibre method of its production and use thereof Sep. 4, 2007
7089765 Method of making a jacketed preform for optical fibers using OVD Aug. 15, 2006
7062942 Method of manufacturing glass optical fibre preforms and optical fibres Jun. 20, 2006
7010203 Optical fiber manufacturing method and optical fiber Mar. 7, 2006
7003984 Hybrid manufacturing process for optical fibers Feb. 28, 2006
6987917 Optical fiber preform producing method, optical fiber preform, and optical fiber Jan. 17, 2006
6968107 Holey optical fibres Nov. 22, 2005
6938443 Method for the manufacture of a quartz glass preform for an optical fiber Sep. 6, 2005
6892018 Micro-structured optical fiber May. 10, 2005
6883351 Method for fabricating a low polarization mode dispersion optical fiber Apr. 26, 2005
6851281 Method of fabricating rare earth doped optical fibre Feb. 8, 2005
6848277 Projection lithography photomasks and method of making Feb. 1, 2005
6847771 Microstructured optical fibers and preforms and methods for fabricating microstructured optical fibers Jan. 25, 2005
6836605 Optical fiber preform, production method thereof, and optical fiber produced from the preform Dec. 28, 2004
6821449 Two step etching process for an optical fiber preform Nov. 23, 2004
6775450 Micro-structured optical fibers Aug. 10, 2004
6754425 Dispersion flattened fiber with high negative dispersion and method for the manufacture thereof Jun. 22, 2004
6738550 Holey waveguide manufacture May. 18, 2004
6718800 Method of collapsing a tube for an optical fiber preform Apr. 13, 2004
6587633 Active optical fibre doped with rare earth elements Jul. 1, 2003
6574994 Method of manufacturing multi-segmented optical fiber and preform Jun. 10, 2003
6523369 Method of forming an optical fiber Feb. 25, 2003
6523368 Dispersion-managed fiber preform and fabricating method thereof by MCVD Feb. 25, 2003
6519974 Method for fabricating an optical fiber by simultaneous preform fusing and fiber drawing Feb. 18, 2003
6519388 Tube-encased fiber grating Feb. 11, 2003
6510711 Apparatus and method for sintering a sol-gel tube using a furnace having a rotating cap Jan. 28, 2003
6408653 Apparatus and method for manufacturing optical fiber preform by MCVD Jun. 25, 2002
6405566 Method and device for over-cladding an optical fiber primary preform Jun. 18, 2002
6173588 Method of making dispersion managed optical fibers Jan. 16, 2001
6053013 Apparatus and method for overcladding optical fiber preform rod and optical fiber drawing method Apr. 25, 2000
5917109 Method of making optical fiber having depressed index core region Jun. 29, 1999
5868815 Method of making an optical fiber by blowing on a preform tube to enhance collapse Feb. 9, 1999
5802236 Article comprising a micro-structured optical fiber, and method of making such fiber Sep. 1, 1998
5658363 Method of joining a tube to a rod having an annular rib, so as to form an optical fiber preform Aug. 19, 1997
5578106 Method for making optical fiber preforms by collapsing a hollow glass tube upon a glass rod Nov. 26, 1996
5198270 Method of forming a fiber preform with dopants dissolved in a liquid Mar. 30, 1993
5145509 Method of manufacturing optical fibres Sep. 8, 1992
5127929 Process for the manufacturing of optical waveguides with fusion of a sleeving tube onto a mother preform Jul. 7, 1992
5113035 Device for the production of an optical waveguide preform May. 12, 1992
5106401 Process for thermal treatment of glass fiber preform Apr. 21, 1992
5076824 Method of making fiber optical preform with pyrolytic coated mandrel Dec. 31, 1991
5059230 Fabrication of doped filament optical fibers Oct. 22, 1991
4944783 Method for producing glass preform for single mode optical fiber Jul. 31, 1990
4941905 Methods of soot overcladding an optical preform Jul. 17, 1990
4935045 Method of manufacturing a preform for asymmetrical optical fiber Jun. 19, 1990
4921516 Method of manufacturing optical fibers with elimination of paraxial refractive-index dip May. 1, 1990
4869743 Method of manufacturing an optical fiber using a preform obtained by collapsing a tube Sep. 26, 1989
4838915 Method for heating thick-walled glass tubes and apparatus therefore Jun. 13, 1989
4828592 Polarization plane maintaining optical fiber fabricating method May. 9, 1989
4820322 Method of and apparatus for overcladding a glass rod Apr. 11, 1989

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