CA1042666A - Mode de production de guides d'ondes a fibres optiques - Google Patents

Mode de production de guides d'ondes a fibres optiques

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Publication number: CA1042666A
Authority: CA; Canada
Prior art keywords: glass; phase; pores; wave guide; soluble
Prior art date: 1974-04-22
Legal status (The legal status is an assumption and is not a legal conclusion. Google has not performed a legal analysis and makes no representation as to the accuracy of the status listed.): Expired

Application number

CA219,174A

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English (en)

Inventor

Pedro B. Macedo

Theodore A. Litovitz

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1974-04-22

Filing date

1975-01-31

Publication date

1978-11-21

1974-04-22 Priority claimed from US05/462,481 external-priority patent/US3938974A/en

1975-01-31 Application filed by Individual filed Critical Individual

1978-07-10 Priority to CA307,032A priority Critical patent/CA1044462A/fr

1978-11-21 Application granted granted Critical

1978-11-21 Publication of CA1042666A publication Critical patent/CA1042666A/fr

Status Expired legal-status Critical Current

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CA219,174A 1974-04-22 1975-01-31 Mode de production de guides d'ondes a fibres optiques Expired CA1042666A (fr)

Priority Applications (1)

Application Number	Priority Date	Filing Date	Title
CA307,032A CA1044462A (fr)	1974-04-22	1978-07-10	Methode de production de fibres de guide d'ondes optique

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Application Number	Priority Date	Filing Date	Title
US05/462,481 US3938974A (en)	1973-04-27	1974-04-22	Method of producing optical wave guide fibers

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CA1042666A true CA1042666A (fr)	1978-11-21

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Publication	Publication Date	Title
US3938974A (en)	1976-02-17	Method of producing optical wave guide fibers
US4225330A (en)	1980-09-30	Process for producing glass member
EP0300610B1 (fr)	1991-08-07	Procédé de fabrication d'une fibre optique
US4082420A (en)	1978-04-04	An optical transmission fiber containing fluorine
CA1125553A (fr)	1982-06-15	Fibre optique resistante et son procede de fabrication
US4165222A (en)	1979-08-21	Process for the manufacture of optical fibers with a radial refractive index
US4493720A (en)	1985-01-15	Process for producing doped vitreous silica for preparing a preform for an optical fibre
US4161505A (en)	1979-07-17	Process for producing optical transmission fiber
CA1147960A (fr)	1983-06-14	Methode de fabrication de guide d'onde optique
DE2420558C2 (de)	1986-05-28	Verfahren zur Herstellung von Leitern für optische Signale
CA1160845A (fr)	1984-01-24	Methode de production d'un guide d'ondes optique
US4295869A (en)	1981-10-20	Process for producing optical transmission fiber
US4165152A (en)	1979-08-21	Process for producing optical transmission fiber
US4163654A (en)	1979-08-07	Method of manufacturing graded index optical fibers
IE44144B1 (en)	1981-08-26	Improvements in or relating to the production of glass articles
US4518407A (en)	1985-05-21	Optical fibre preform manufacture
US4183620A (en)	1980-01-15	Joint doped porous glass article with high modifier concentrations
EP0147029A1 (fr)	1985-07-03	Fabrication d'un objet en verre de silice
JPH0526731B2 (fr)	1993-04-19
US4249924A (en)	1981-02-10	Process for the production of graded index optical fibres
CA1042666A (fr)	1978-11-21	Mode de production de guides d'ondes a fibres optiques
US4299608A (en)	1981-11-10	Joint doping of porous glasses to produce materials with high modifier concentrations
GB2033372A (en)	1980-05-21	A Method of Producing an Optical Waveguide
CA1044462A (fr)	1978-12-19	Methode de production de fibres de guide d'ondes optique
CA1135093A (fr)	1982-11-09	Fibres optiques, et methode de preparation connexe