• 한국전산유체공학회지
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• 제18권4호
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• pp.69-73
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• 2013

Mass manufacturing of optical fiber includes the process of very thin glass fiber drawing by heating and softening the high purity silica preform and applying the draw tension on the softened tip of preform neck-down profile in a draw furnace. In this computational study, this process is numerically modeled with simplified geometry of the draw furnace which is comprised of essential parts such as concentric graphite heater, muffle tube, and insulation surrounding the heater. The iterative computational scheme is employed between one-dimensional model of neck-down profile prediction and two-dimensional axisymmetric thermo-fluid CFD computation of radiative heating and working gas convection. The computational results show the experimentally observed neck-down profile in heated section of preform, while yielding the reasonable values of draw tension and heater wattage. Also, this study analyzes and discusses the effects of heating conditions such as heater length and temperature on several important aspects of glass fiber drawing process.

• 한국전산유체공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국전산유체공학회 2011년 춘계학술대회논문집
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• pp.88-91
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• 2011

Glass fiber drawing from a silica preform is one of the most important processes in optical fiber manufacturing. High purify silica preform of cylindrical shape is fed into the graphite furnace, and then a very thin glass fiber of 125 micron diameter is drawn from the softened and heated preform. A computational analysis is performed to investigate the heat transfer characteristics of preform heating and the glass fiber drawing in the furnace. In addition to the dominant radiative heating of preform by the heating element in the furnace, present analysis also includes the convective heat transport by the gas flowing around the preform that experiences neck-dawn profile and the freshly drawn glass fiber at high fiber drawing speed. The computational results present the effects of gas flow on the temperature of preform and glass fiber as well as the neck-down profile of preform.

• 한국광학회지
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• 제14권3호
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• pp.219-223
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• 2003

광섬유의 잔류응력(residual stress)을 측정하기 위해 위상보정 편광기(polariscope)를 새롭게 구성하고, 간섭이나 회절에 대한 영향을 최소화시키면서 빠르고 정확하게 측정하는 방법을 제시하였다. 이 방법을 이용하여 일반 광섬유의 잔류 응력 분포를 측정할 수 있었다. 또한 광섬유의 잔류응력이 모재의 잔류응력분포와 달리 인출 시 발생하는 광섬유 내 온도의 냉각곡선에 밀접한 관계를 갖고 있음을 알 수 있었다.

• 한국전산유체공학회지
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• 제16권1호
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• pp.22-29
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• 2011

In this study, the glass fiber drawing from a silica preform in the furnace for the optical fiber manufacturing process is numerically simulated by considering the radiative heating of cylindrically shaped preform. The one-dimensional governing equations of the mass, momentum, and energy conservation for the heated and softened preform are solved as a set of the boundary value problems along with the radiative transfer approximation between the muffle tube and the deformed preform shape, while the furnace heating is modeled by prescribing the temperature distribution of muffle tube. The temperature-dependent viscosity of silica plays an important role in formation of preform neck-down profile when the glass fiber is drawn at high speed. The calculated neck-down profile of preform and the draw tension are found to be reasonable and comparable to the actual results observed in the optical fiber industry. This paper also presents the effects of key operating parameters such as the muffle tube temperature distribution and the fiber drawing speed on the preform neck-down profile and the draw tension. Draw tension varies drastically even with the small change of furnace heating conditions such as maximum heating temperature and heating width, and the fine adjustment of furnace heating is required in order to maintain the appropriate draw tension of 100~200 g.

• 한국전산유체공학회지
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• 제15권4호
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• pp.92-98
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• 2010

In a modern high speed drawing process of optical fibers, it is necessary to use helium as a cooling gas in a glass fiber cooling unit in order to sufficiently cool down the fast moving glass fiber freshly drawn from the heated silica preform in the furnace. Since the air is entrained unavoidably when the glass fiber passes through the cooling unit, the helium is needed to be injected constantly into the cooling unit. The present numerical study investigates and analyzes the air entrainment using an axisymmetric geometry of glass fiber cooling unit. The effects of helium injection rate and direction on the air entrainment rate are discussed in terms of helium purity of cooling gas inside the cooling unit. For a given rate of helium injection, it is found that there exists a certain drawing speed that results in sudden increase in the air entrainment rate, which leads to the decreasing helium purity and therefore the cooling performance of the glass fiber cooling unit. Also, the helium injection in aiding direction is found to be more advantageous than the injection in opposing direction.

• 한국세라믹학회지
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• 제39권12호
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• pp.1158-1163
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• 2002

2차 비선형 광특성을 유도하기 위한 UV 폴링용 Ge와 B가 첨가된 광민감성 광섬유를 제조하였다. 248 nm KrF 엑시머 레이저 조사에 의하여 수소처리 없이 장주기 격자를 형성할 수 있었다. 116 mJ/$cm^2$의 펄스 에너지와 10 Hz의 조사 빈도로 1분간 광민감성 광섬유에 레이저를 조사할 경우 -4 dB의 큰 band rejection 특성을 얻을 수 있었다. 제조된 광섬유의 광민감성은 장주기 격자쌍 방법을 이용하여 측정하였으며, 8.67 kJ/$cm^2$의 fluence로 KrF 엑시머 레이저를 조사할 경우 3.3${\times}10^{-3}$의 큰 코어 굴절률 변화를 얻었다. 또한 UV 폴링 시에 광섬유 코어에 고전압을 쉽게 인가할 수 있는 H자 형상의 광섬유를 인출조건의 최적호를 통하여 제조하였다.

• 한국광학회지
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• 제21권6호
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• pp.235-240
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• 2010

Stack-and-draw 방법을 사용하여 새로운 구조의 높은 복굴절을 가진 광자 결정 광섬유(highly birefringent photonic crystal fiber, Hi-Bi PCF)를 제작하였다. 제작된 광섬유는 공기구멍으로 구성된 클래딩 외부에 큰 공기구멍을 추가함으로써 광섬유 인출 과정중에 코어와 공기층 클래딩 영역에 비대칭적인 압력이 인가되어 코어가 타원형으로 변형되어 복굴절이 유도된다. 제작된 Hi-Bi PCF의 복굴절은 1550 nm에서 $2.29{\times}10^{-4}$로 측정되었다.