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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 12, 2023
Filed:
Jun. 17, 2020
Applicant:
Corning Incorporated, Corning, NY (US);
Inventors:
Daniel Robert Boughton, Naples, NY (US);
Kenneth Edward Hrdina, Horseheads, NY (US);
Stefan Wolfgang Kramel, Ithaca, NY (US);
Christopher Scott Thomas, Horseheads, NY (US);
Assignee:
Corning Incorporated, Corning, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C03B 37/10 (2006.01); C03B 37/029 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
C03B 37/10 (2013.01); C03B 37/029 (2013.01);
Abstract
Methods, apparatuses and systems of manufacturing an optical fiber are disclosed herein. The methods may include heating an optical preform in a draw furnace, drawing an optical fiber from the optical preform, cooling the optical fiber with a slow cooling device, and annealing the optical fiber by passing the optical fiber through an RF plasma heating apparatus.