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Date: Friday, March 17
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TAMPA, MARCH 16, 2017 – USF fans have a unique opportunity to watch the Bulls begin their NCAA tournament run not too far away from Tampa.
Instead of jumping on a plane, USF has taken only its second bus trip of the season four hours up the road to Tallahassee for the opening rounds at FSU's Donald L. Tucker Center. Action begins Friday with USF (24-8) taking on sixth-seeded Missouri (21-10) at 5:15 p.m. in an exciting matchup televised nationally on ESPN2.
"It should be a wonderful tournament and we're looking forward to playing," head coach Jose Fernandez said.
Wonderful also describes the feeling Fernandez's hard-working Bulls would get if they see lots of Green and Gold in the stands for the program's fourth NCAA tournament appearance in five years (fifth overall).
"It feels good to be closer to Tampa because we know our fans are going to come support us," star point guard Laia Flores said. "It's always good to get support and this probably will help."
Home fans certainly helped boost the Bulls to 10 wins at the Sun Dome, which is one of the many special aspects of the Bulls' 2016-17 season so far.
Fernandez's new-look Bulls will begin the NCAA tournament three wins shy of matching the program's season record set in 2014-15. That monumental season was the first of three straight trips to the Big Dance for USF, which also has appeared in The American tournament championship three seasons in a row.
Credit goes to Fernandez, who passed the 300-win mark this season, along with his staff and a roster that's as diverse as it gets. USF's 14-player squad consists of nine international players, the most of any Division I program, and the bulk of the Bulls' talent hails from eight different countries.
"We're really fortunate, we're really excited to be playing in this thing, especially us losing four starters from last season's team and winning 24 games," Fernandez said.
Fernandez's international flavor includes Flores (Spain), USF sophomore season scoring leader Kitija Laksa (Latvia) and forward Maria Jespersen, a native of Arhus, Denmark, who was named The American's most improved player this season.
"It's American basketball, it's international basketball and European basketball together," said Laksa. "We just kind of bring the best of our own games and put it together to make our own style of basketball."
Speaking of Laksa, the sharp-shooter needs 29 points to become the second sophomore in USF history to reach 1,000 in a season. Fans rooting for that to happen in Tallahassee also have an opportunity to become a part of history if the Bulls keep rolling.
USF is seeking its first-ever trip to the Sweet 16 and the first step is getting past an opponent that looks very much like the Bulls. Missouri earned its highest seed in school history and won 10 of its past 13 games using a style Fernandez's squad has excelled with this season.
"They like to shoot the 3, so do we. We space the floor, so do they," Fernandez said. "I think from a fan aspect and a matchup aspect, it will be a good game for people in the arena and for people watching all over the world."
With a win Friday, USF will play in the second round of the NCAA tournament for the third straight season. That meeting could be with third-seeded FSU, which takes on Western Illinois following USF-Missouri on Friday night.
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USF has notched its fifth consecutive 20-win season. The Bulls tallied its 20th win in their 24th contest of the season which tied the fastest any program has reached 20 wins. This is the eighth 20-win season in program history and head coach Jose Fernandez has been at the helm for all eight 20-win seasons. The 2014-15 team reached 20 wins in 24 games, and still currently holds the best record for most wins in a season (27).
USF has made 13 postseason tournament appearances and had five NCAA Tournament berths in Head Coach Jose Fernandez's 17 seasons. The all-time winningest coach in program history, Fernandez has guided USF to eight 20-win seasons, two WNIT final four appearances, the 2009 WNIT championship and won more than 300 games.
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Whether he gets recognized with the award or not, it's been quite a ride. Red Wings defenceman Niklas Kronwall first played with Zetterberg as a teenager in Sweden and never thought he'd see him blossom into the player he is now.
"Back then I didn't think too much about it," Kronwall said Monday before Game 5 of the Stanley Cup. "When I was 17 and he was 18, it was all about the Sedin twins. Hank was kind of the second-line winger on that team and didn't get a lot of attention."
There's no question in Kronwall's mind that Zetterberg is among the "top dogs" in Swedish hockey now.
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Although the effects of noise on humans have been studied extensively, only recently has a substantial amount of effort been devoted to studying the effects of sound on animals, particularly marine mammals. A variety of methods are being applied or developed to help measure the effect of underwater sound on marine animals. This section highlights some of the methods that are used to measure a marine mammal's reaction to sound.
In order to measure an animal's reaction to a sound you must first study the animal's behavior when the sound is not present! These observations of normal behavior, which are "control" or "baseline" data, provide the reference points for measuring any changes that take place during or after sound exposure. It is important to obtain many of these baseline observations because both the typical (or average) value of the measurements and the range of natural variability must be described.
When studying the reactions of marine mammals to sound, it is important to measure as many factors as possible before, during, and after an animal is exposed to the sound of interest. Factors that are often measured include behavioral state (feeding, socializing, resting, etc.), dive duration, depth of dive, distance traveled, swimming speed, swimming direction, as well as the sounds that the animals produce. Recently, more objective physiological parameters such as heart rate have been used to gauge whether or not an animal is reacting to sound. Scientists compare the average measurements of single or multiple factors obtained during control periods to experimental conditions, taking into account the ranges of variation observed in both situations.
If the mathematical comparisons indicate that there is a statistically significant difference between control and experimental conditions, then the scientists must evaluate whether or not the responses are biologically significant[1]. This is often more difficult and controversial than the mathematical analysis. Several factors must be considered, such as: How long did the response last? Was the average response within the range of the animal's normal behavior? How much extra energy did the animal spend because of the response? How many behaviors are affected? Biologists use the answers to consider the impacts on the animal's survival and reproduction. For example, temporary changes in the dive behavior of a single animal are not as biologically significant as many animals leaving an important feeding area for several days. The responses are more likely to be biologically important if several behaviors are affected rather than only one or two.
The following sections provide an overview of selected methods that are used to measure a marine mammal's hearing sensitivity and reaction to sound:
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It's Philippine Eagle Week and it is an opportune time to know about our national bird which, incidentally is also the largest and most endangered eagle in the world. The Philippine Eagle
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is endemic or unique to our country and can only be found in Sierra Madre in Luzon, Samar, Leyte and Mindanao. It was discovered in 1896 in Samar by John Whitehead, an English explorer and naturalist. I read Haribon-BirdLife's Threatened Birds of the Philippines (1999), which provides a comprehensive discussion about the bird—its habitat and distribution, feeding and breeding habits, threats and conservation measures. Reading through the section on the Philippine eagle's recorded sightings, I felt disheartened because most of all the records were incidents related to it being hunted, found dead or dying or being caught. But what is interesting is that in 1907, there were sightings of Philippine Eagle in nearby Marikina Watershed particularly in Boso-Boso, Montalban and in San Mateo. Philippine Eagle is an inhabitant of the primary forest but also occurs in second growth forest and, according to Kennedy, has partially adapted to human upslope encroachment by hunting over cleared land. Unpublished research on prey density and diversity indicates a positive correlation with primary forest, clear evidence for the vital importance of such habitat to the long-term survival of the species. Hunting for prey is usually done in the morning with a typical hunt beginning at a perch high on a forested hillside, the bird dropping with flapping its wings in a short glide to another perch where it pauses and scans, then glides down to another perch and so on for an hour or so until near the floor of the valley, then glides off in horizontal flight, finds a thermal updraught and circles up to regain its previous elevation. The variety and size of prey items recorded (from a 10 g bat to a 14 kg deer) at a nest studied by Kennedy in 1985 suggest that Philippine eagle is an opportunistic feeder meaning that it preys on whatever is available and vulnerable. The generic name of Philippine Eagle,
, which led to its original English name "monkey-eating," was the result of the natives of Samar reporting that it "preys chiefly on green monkeys." In Whitehead's view (1899), monkeys are the only animals sufficiently abundant in the forest to support the large bird. However, it was found out later by Gonzales (1968) that monkeys formed only a small proportion of the diet of a breeding pair. Moreover, it may well be that diets change with area, elevation, forest type, rainfall distribution and/or stages in the breeding cycle: during the incubation and brooding periods one member of a pair is required for nest duty, so the hunting of monkeys may then be greatly reduced however locally abundant they are. Philippine Eagles studied at nests proved to be in monogamous pairs and it is an assumption that runs through all work on the population and biology of the species that monogamy is the exclusive condition under which it reproduces. One or two eggs may be laid although one appears the more frequent and in cases of two, generally only one eaglet fledges. The male does most of the hunting from incubation up to the first third of the nestling period and the female doing two-thirds of the incubation and almost all of the chick-feeding duties in this period. Thereafter, the two adults share hunting and provisioning for the eaglet. Incubation is approximately 60 days while nestling or the period where the parents care for the young is about 105 days. In a nest that was observed, for the first seven weeks of the chick's life, its parents shielded it from the sun and rain but after that, left it entirely to care for itself. Eaglets remain in the nest for almost five and a half months after hatching and were entirely dependent for several months more. In one instance, the offspring remained within its parents' home range for almost 17 months after leaving the nest. Thus, it is estimated that a successful nesting cycle requires two years. Life span is estimated at 40 years. Annabelle Plantilla
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Nov. 26, 1925 – July 12, 2014
Marjorie Ellen Wagoner, 88, of Sarasota, FL, formerly of Charlotte, MI, died on July 12, 2014. Visitation will be held from 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm on Friday, July 18, 2014 at Southside Baptist Church in Sarasota, FL. Services will begin at 1:00 pm at the church. A memorial service will be held at a later date in Charlotte, Michigan.
Funeral arrangements by Wiegand Brothers Funeral Home.
She was a member of the Southside Baptist Church and an active member of the American Business Women's Association, Ringling Chapter for 23 years. Survivors include her daughter Elizabeth Anne Swift (Charles) of Lake Placid, FL; brother Raymond Grant of Charlotte, MI; sisters Virginia Shaver and Norma Frantz both of Charlotte, MI; Martha Moore of Vermontville, MI, Connie Green of New Braunfels, TX, Katherine Burnett of Brighton, MI; granddaughters Beth Swift Hendry (Gerald), Angela Swift Buchholz (Jason) Julie Swift Wilson (Chuck) and seven great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her husband William Wayne Wagoner, father DeVere Grant, mother Anne Baas Grant, and sister Barbara Benedict.
Memorial contributions may be made to the Southside Baptist Church, 2035 Magnolia Street, Sarasota, FL 34239 or American Business Women's Association, Ringling Chapter, Scholarship Fund, C/O Lynn Schneider, 7556 Marsh Orchid Circle, Bradenton, FL 34203.
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Pintura a dedo pode ir muito além do guache!
pre-wedding pictures without breaking tradition. :)
The sound waves of the moment they said 'I do'... This is really cool.
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Reducing gas consumption is a great way to control the budget. There are several ways to accomplish this goal and everyone will have their individual way of cutting back based on their priorities and resources. I mentioned in the introduction to this series that Ken and I drive a much older car. We have no car payments and get thirty miles to the gallon. She's a little worse for wear, but our car is awesome and is helping us shift A LOT of money so we can pursue our dreams. The following tips will show you ways to get more money out of your transportation budget, so you can spend it on what you truly value.
- Pay cash for your car. This gets rid of monthly car payments that carry a hefty interest rate. Not having a lean on your car will also reduce your insurance rate. This will leave you only being responsible for repairs, which you can do yourself, pay a friend to do or support your local, ethical mechanic. All three options will put more money in your pocket.
|This is her "good" side ;~D
- Mileage beats beauty. As far as I'm concerned, I'll drive my dinged up, 190,000 mile, 1995 Honda Civic until it no longer makes sense. I will easily be able to get another 100,000 miles out of this car. Of course, if you are in the position to purchase a hybrid or an automobile that runs on something other than gasoline, you will decrease your carbon footprint even more, creating money to shift towards your dreams.
- Make use of public transportation. Ken takes the bus to work. If you live in a community with decent, public transportation, take advantage of it and watch your bank balance stabilize. Purchase bus tokens or monthly passes to decrease the cost of this option even more.
- Carpool to work. It's an oldy but a goody. With the highly unstable cost of gasoline, splitting the gas budget with neighbors can release some finances in your direction, getting you closer to your goals. Plus, in larger cities, you will be able to use the carpool lane on the expressway. This will get you to work quicker, with fewer stops, therefore using less gas and putting less wear and tear on your car.
- Batch your trips. Plan errands around commutes to and from work or around other outings. Do as much as you can every time you go out. Avoid "quick runs" out to purchase impulse items and things that can wait until you go out for some other reason.
- Tune up! Keep your car's tires inflated as well as ensuring that all fluids are topped off. Change your oil regularly and keep an eye on those spark plugs. This will reduce the amount of gas your car uses. Do these tune ups yourself and shift even more cash towards your dreams
- Walk or ride a bike. This is pretty self explanatory, so I want to share what my coworker has done with his bike. He has motorized it. It is gas fueled and he gets 100 miles to the gallon. I've seen other motorized bikes popping up in my community. I get giddy thinking of all the money that's being shifted in these peoples lives with this simply choice.
OK, boys and girls. That's today's tips and tricks for creating more cash to shift towards your dreams. Shower what you value with financial abundance and watch your life become even grander than you ever imagined.
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|Application number
|Publication date
|Jan 13, 1976
|Filing date
|Jun 21, 1974
|Priority date
|Jun 21, 1974
|Also published as
|Publication number
|Michael G. Blankenship
|Original Assignee
|Corning Glass Works
|Export Citation
|BiBTeX, EndNote, RefMan
|Patent Citations (5), Referenced by (90), Classifications (25)
|External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet
2πa/λ) √(n1 +n2) (n1 -n2) < 2.405
This invention relates to a method of making high quality glass optical waveguides having small diameter cores, and more particularly, to a method of making optical waveguides of the type that are adapted to propagate only one or a few modes.
High capacity communication systems operating around 1015 Hz are needed to accommodate future increases in communication traffic. These systems are referred to as optical communication systems since 1015 Hz is within the frequency spectrum of light. Optical waveguides, which are the most promising medium for transmission at such frequencies, normally consist of an optical fiber having a transparent core surrounded by transparent cladding material having a refractive index which is lower than that of the core. A very thorough and complete discussion concerning the operational theories of optical waveguides is contained in U.S. Pat. No. 3,157,726 issued to Hicks et al., and in the publication "Cylindrical Dielectric Waveguide Modes" by E. Snitzer, Journal of the Optical Society of America, Vol. 51, No. 5, pages 491-498, May, 1961. Another excellent source of information concerning optical waveguides is "Fiber Optics -- Principles and Applications" by N. S. Kapany, Academic Press, 1967.
The propagation of light waves is governed by laws of physics similar to those that govern microwave propagation and therefore can be studied in terms of modes. Each of these modes has its own propagation and distribution characteristics. The conditions under which propagation of a particular mode will no longer be localized within and around the core of an optical fiber can be expressed in terms of a cutoff value or parameter U. An exceptionally complex equation, and an explanation thereof, from which the value U for a particular mode can be determined may be found on page 55 of the aforementioned book by N. S. Kapany. Kapany also expresses a fiber characteristic term R, now commonly referred to as V, in terms of the optical fiber variables by the equation
V = (2πa/λ) √n1 2 - n2 2 (1)
Where a is the core radius of the waveguide, λ is the wavelength of light to be transmitted and n1 and n2 are the refractive indices of the core and cladding, respectively. Equation (1) can be rewritten as
V = (2πa/λ) √(n1 + n2) (n1 - n2) (2)
Then, as explained in Kapany, for a particular mode to propagate within an optical fiber having a particular fiber characteristic term V, V must be greater than or equal to the cutoff value U for said mode.
Typical multimode waveguides have core diameters between 50 micrometers and 100 micrometers and corecladding refractive index differences of several percent. Thousands of modes propagate, each mode traveling at a slightly different group velocity. A short input pulse that is shared by many guided modes thus splits up into a sequence of pulses that arrive at the output end at different times. This pulse dispersion limits the information carrying capacity of multimode waveguides. The total number of modes that can be supported by a waveguide fiber is given approximately by the equation
Equations (3) and (2) indicate that more modes can be guided if the core radius is large of if the refractive index difference is large. It is noted that equation (3) is not very accurate for small values of N, but it is useful for approximating the number of modes that will be propagated by a multimode optical waveguide.
It is possible to design an optical waveguide so that only one mode, the HE11 mode, is propagated, thereby eliminating the aforementioned mode delay distortion and opening the way to gigabit transmission. It has been determined that for such single mode operation, V must be less than 2.405. If V is set equal to 2.405, and equation (2) is evaluated, it can be seen that a method of limiting light propagation of a desired wavelength to one mode is to coordinate the waveguide parameters a, n1, and n2. That is, if the difference between the two indices of refraction (n1 - n2) increases, the core radius must decrease, and if (n1 - n2) decreases, the core radius must increase. Producing waveguides having core and cladding indices of refraction within limits necessary to maintain single mode propagation is difficult even for waveguides with very small cores. The difficulty is markedly increased in producing waveguides with larger cores, since the difference in refractive indices must be correspondingly decreased. As an example, if the optical waveguide is to have a small core, that is, a core diameter of approximately one micron, the required difference in the two indices of refraction will be of the order of 10- 2 , and if the optical waveguide is to have a large core, that is, a core diameter of approximately one millimeter, the required difference in the two indices of refraction would be even smaller, that is, on the order of 10- 4 .
Even though single mode waveguides exhibit extremely low pulse dispersion, the use thereof for long distance transmission of light is not feasible unless they are capable of providing low loss light transmission. Absorption losses can be minimized by employing high purity glasses having an extremely low content of impurity ions. Although some intrinsic scattering due to inhomogeneities of the dielectric material is unavoidable, scattering losses also result from corecladding interface irregularities caused by the trapping of numerous tiny air bubbles and foreign particles at that interface and by core diameter variations due to inadequate dimensional control. The present invention relates to a method of forming an optical waveguide in which these latter mentioned scattering losses are minimized.
A present method of producing a conventional optical fiber is disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 3,227,032 issued to L. O. Upton. This method comprises inserting a rod of glass possessing the desired core characteristics into a tube of glass possessing the desired cladding characteristics. The temperature of this combination is then raised until the viscosity of the materials is low enough for drawing. The combination is then drawn until the tube collapses around and fuses to the inside rod. This resulting combination rod is then further drawn until its cross-sectional area is decreased to the desired dimensions. This method is normally used to produce glass optical fibers having a large core and a thin outside cladding. As an example, the total diameter to core diameter ratio of such a fiber might be 8:7.
The stringent optical requirements placed on the transmission medium to be employed in optical communication systems has negated the use of conventional glass fiber optics, since attenuation therein due to both scattering and impurity absorption is much too high. Since pure fused silica has the lowest known optical attenuation of any glass in the red and near infrared portion of the spectrum where optical communications appears most promising, pure fused silica and doped fused silica were among the earliest considered materials for use in the fabrication of optical waveguides. For example, single mode optical waveguides have been formed by inserting a titania doped silica fiber into a silica capillary. The tubing is heated and collapsed onto the central fiber, and the resulting cane is redrawn to waveguide dimensions. Waveguides produced by this method are unsatisfactory since the occurrence of numerous tiny air bubbles and foreign particles at the core-cladding interface and variations in core diameter cause very high attenuation.
U.S. Pat. No. 3,711,262 issued to D. B. Keck et al. discloses a method of forming a single mode waveguide having an unusually clean and strong bond between the core and cladding materials. Waveguides made in accordance with the method of that patent exhibit lower attenuation resulting from light scattering centers at the core-cladding interface. The method of that patent comprises the steps of forming by the flame hydrolysis process a coating of glass soot on the inside wall of a glass tube, heating the resultant structure to consolidate the glass soot and form a dense glass layer free from particle boundaries, and thereafter drawing the glass tube and glass layer combination to reduce the cross-sectional area thereof and to collapse the layer of glass to form a fiber having a solid cross-sectional area. Although an improved core-cladding interface can be formed, it is difficult to form by this method single mode waveguides in which the core diameter is controlled to the desired tolerance because of the difficulty encountered in forming such a thin glass layer of uniform thickness on the inner surface of the glass tube.
Multimode fibers having a relatively low total diameter to core diameter ratio have been made by the method set forth in U.S. Pat. No. 3,737,292 issued to D. B. Keck et al. In accordance with the method of that patent a multimode optical waveguide is formed by applying by the flame hydrolysis process a first layer of glass having a predetermined refractive index on the outside peripheral wall surface of a substantially cylindrical mandrel and thereafter applying by the flame hydrolysis process a second layer of glass to the outside surface of the first coating, the refractive index of the second layer being less than that of the first layer. The mandrel is removed by acid etching, drilling or the like. The resulting cylindrical hollow assembly is heated and drawn to reduce the cross-sectional area thereof and to collapse the first and inner layer of glass to form a solid fiber having a high quality core-cladding interface. To employ this method to form single mode optical waveguides having large total diameter to core diameter ratios, the thickness of the first applied glass layer must be drastically decreased and that of the second applied glass layer must be correspondingly increased, and it is therefore extremely difficult to control the diameter of the resultant waveguide core to the required tolerance.
It is therefore an object of the present invention to provide a method of forming optical waveguides having relatively high ratios of total diameter to core diameter, wherein the core diameter can be controlled to tight tolerances. Another object is to provide a method of forming low loss single mode optical waveguides.
Briefly, according to this invention an optical waveguide is produced by applying a first layer of glass to the outside peripheral surface of a cylindrical mandrel. Thereafter, a second layer of glass having a refractive index less than that of the first layer is applied over the peripheral outside surface of the first layer. The mandrel is removed from the assembly following the application of either the first or second layer of glass. The resultant substantially cylindrical hollow assembly is then heated to a temperature at which the materials thereof have a low enough viscosity for drawing, and it is drawn to reduce the diameter thereof, thereby forming an intermediate fiber. At least a portion of the intermediate fiber is disposed within a glass tube having a hole extending axially therethrough. This final composite structure is heated to the drawing temperature thereof and is drawn to reduce the cross-sectional area thereof and to collapse any air spaces existing therein, thereby forming an optical waveguide fiber having a solid cross-section.
FIGS. 1 and 2 illustrate the application of first and second coatings of glass soot to a mandrel.
FIG. 3 is a cross-sectional view of a first dense glass composite structure formed in accordance with the method of the present invention.
FIG. 4 is a graph illustrating the light intensity distribution as a function of the radial distance from the center of an optical waveguide.
FIG. 5 is a cross-sectional view of an intermediate fiber obtained by drawing the composite structure of FIG. 3.
FIG. 6 is a fragmentary elevation, partially in cross-section, illustrating an optical waveguide being formed in accordance with the present invention.
FIG. 7 is a cross-section taken along lines 7--7 of FIG. 6.
It is to be noted that the drawings are illustrative and symbolic of the present invention, and there is no intention to indicate the scale or relative proportions of the elements shown therein.
One method of forming a single mode optical waveguide fiber is illustrated in the drawings. Referring to FIG. 1, a coating 10 of glass soot is applied to cylindrical mandrel 12 by means of flame hydrolysis burner 14. Fuel gas and oxygen or air are supplied to burner 14 from a source (not shown). This mixture is burned to produce flame 16 which is emitted from the burner. A gas-vapor mixture is hydrolyzed within flame 16 to form a glass soot that leaves the flame in a stream 18, which is directed toward mandrel 12. The flame hydrolysis method of forming soot coatings on cylindrical mandrels is described in greater detail in the aforementioned U.S. Pat. No. 3,737,292. Mandrel 12 is supported by means of support portion 20 and is rotated and translated as indicated by arrows adjacent thereto in FIG. 1 for uniform deposition of soot. Uniform soot deposition can also be obtained by causing the flame to traverse the length of the rotating mandrel. This first soot coating should be sufficiently thick that the diameter thereof can be measured with reasonable precision. It is presently thought that the minimum thickness of coating 10 is about 5 mm, which will result in a glass layer about 1.7 mm thick after the soot is consolidated.
A second coating of soot is applied over the outside peripheral surface of first coating 10 as shown in FIG. 2. In accordance with well-known practice the refractive index of coating 22 is made lower than that of coating 10 by changing the composition of the soot 24 being produced in flame 16. This can be accomplished by changing the concentration or type of dopant material being introduced into the flame, or by omitting the dopant material. Mandrel 12 is again rotated and translated to provide a uniform deposition of coating 22, the composite structure including first coating 10 and second coating 22 constituting an optical waveguide soot preform 30. The outside diameter of preform 30 is made as large as possible so that the diameter of the intermediate cladding layer of the resultant waveguide fiber is relatively large. If the diameter of the soot preform is too large, it will be likely to encounter mechanical breakage due to thermal shock to which it is subjected upon cooling after soot deposition or after consolidation. Also, the quality of the consolidated glass tends to become poorer due to increased seed count as the preform diameter increases. Soot preforms having diameters as large as about 60 mm have been found to be satisfactory.
In the manufacture of optical waveguides, the materials of the core and cladding of the waveguide should be produced from a glass having minimum light attenuation characteristics, and although any optical quality glass may be used, fused silica is a particularly suitable glass. For structural and other practical considerations, it is desirable for the core and cladding glasses to have similar physical characteristics. Since the core glass must have a higher index of refraction than the cladding for proper operation, the core glass may desirably be formed of the same type of glass used for the cladding and doped with a small amount of some other material to slightly increase the refractive index thereof. For example, if pure fused silica is used as the cladding glass, the core glass can consist of fused silica doped with a material to increase its refractive index.
There are many suitable materials that can satisfactorily be used as a dopant alone or in combination with each other. These include, but are not limited to, titanium oxide, tantalum oxide, tin oxide, niobium oxide, zirconium oxide, aluminum oxide, lanthanum oxide and germanium oxide. Optical waveguides can also be made by forming the core from one or more of the aforementioned dopant oxides, the cladding being made from one or more materials having a lower refractive index. For example, a core made of pure germanium oxide may be surrounded by a cladding layer of silica doped germanium oxide. A core of germania doped fused silica is advantageously provided with a cladding layer of fused silica doped with boron oxide which provides a refractive index slightly lower than that of pure fused silica and also gives the cladding layer a somewhat higher thermal coefficient of expansion than pure fused silica, thereby providing a better match between the coefficients of expansion of the core and cladding materials.
After a soot preform of the desired dimensions has been formed on the mandrel, the mandrel-preform composite is inserted into a furnace wherein the soot is subjected to a temperature within the consolidation temperature range thereof. The particles of soot fuse and consolidate to form a dense glass body free from particle boundaries. The consolidation temperature depends upon the composition of the glass soot. For example, the consolidation temperature is in the range of about 1250�C to 1700�C for high silica content soot, consolidation at 1250�C requiring a very long time. The preferred consolidation temperature for high silica content soot is between 1400�C and 1500�C. The consolidation temperature for soot of other compositions is lower than that for silica, high germania content soot being easily consolidated at about 900�C. Moreover, if the surface upon which the glass is being deposited is maintained at a sufficiently high temperature, a layer of consolidated dense glass can be directly deposited on the mandrel by flame hydrolysis. This can be accomplished by the use of auxiliary heating means and/or increasing the temperature of the flame in which the vapor is hydrolyzed. Glass consisting of germania and up to 25% silica has been deposited in this manner directly upon a mandrel.
The first and second soot coatings need not be simultaneously consolidated as described hereinabove. Coating 10 may be consolidated and its exterior surface suitably finished before coating 22 is applied. In such an embodiment coating 22 would thereafter be consolidated before subsequent drawing. In addition, mandrel 12 may be removed from the assembly before the second soot coating is applied, or it may be removed after both the first and second soot coatings are applied and consolidated.
The first and second glass layers may be applied by a variety of methods including but not limited to radio frequency sputtering, consolidating a layer of soot deposited by the flame hydrolysis process, chemical vapor deposition, depositing a glass frit, and the like. Clearly, the first and second glass layers may be applied by either the same or different methods.
The mandrel may be removed by etching, reaming, core drilling or the like. Since the mandrel is ultimately removed, the material thereof need only be such as to have a composition and coefficient of expansion compatible with the waveguide cladding and core materials. Suitable materials are glass, ceramic, graphite and the like. It is preferred to employ as the mandrel a hollow tube which can be removed by pumping acid therethrough. After the mandrel is removed, the hollow, cylindrical, dense glass composite structure 34 of FIG. 3 remains. Composite structure 34 comprises first and second dense glass layers 36 and 38, respectively, the refractive index of layer 36 being greater than that of layer 38.
Composite structure 34 is an intermediate product that is obtained by the method set forth in the aforementioned U.S. Pat. No. 3,737,292. The final product produced by the method of that patent is obtained by heating structure 34 to the drawing temperature of the materials thereof and drawing the heated structure to reduce the cross-sectional area thereof and to collapse the hole therein, thereby forming a multimode optical waveguide fiber having a solid cross-section. Typical final multimode waveguide dimensions may be a core diameter of 120 μm and a cladding thickness of about 40 μm. To continue drawing such a fiber until the core diameter thereof is small enough for single mode propagation, i.e., a core diameter of a few micrometers, would result in an extremely weak fiber due to the small outside diameter thereof. The light intensity distribution of an optical signal propagating in such a waveguide is illustrated in FIG. 4 wherein r1 and r2 are the core and cladding radii, respectively. Since the light intensity is greater than zero at the cladding radius r2, a single mode waveguide of such small cladding thickness will be adversely affected by radiation loss, phase shift problems and cross talk between adjacent fibers.
An apparent solution to this problem is to increase the thickness of second glass layer 38 while maintaining the thickness of the first applied layer 36 constant. However, as mentioned hereinabove, this would increase the possibility of mechanical failure and decrease the quality of the glass. If the overall diameter of composite structure 34 is maintained constant and the thickness of the first glass layer 36 is decreased, local thickness variations will become a greater percentage of the total thickness of layer 36. The core diameter of a waveguide formed from such a preform cannot be controlled to the necessary tolerance.
In accordance with the present invention composite structure 34 is heated to the drawing temperature of the materials thereof and drawn to reduce the cross-sectional area thereof, thereby forming intermediate fiber structure 40 of FIG. 5. This preliminary drawing step need not collapse the first applied layer 36. Drawing is continued until the outside diameter of structure 40 is small enough to permit its insertion into the center of a thick wall tube 42 as illustrated in FIG. 6 wherein elements similar to those of FIGS. 3 and 5 are represented by primed reference numerals. A piece of fiber structure 40 about equal in length to tube 42 is inserted into tube 42, there preferably being a snug but clearance fit therebetween. The two-part structure including intermediate fiber structure 40' and tube 42 are heated by furnace 46 until the materials have a viscosity low enough for drawing. The structure is then drawn to reduce the cross-sectional area thereof, to collapse layer 36' and to collapse the inner surface 44 of tube 42 into fused relation with the outer surface of structure 40', thereby forming a fiber having a solid cross-section. Thereafter, continued drawing of this composite structure further reduces the diameter thereof to form a glass optical waveguide fiber which possesses the desired characteristics. Waveguide fiber 48, which is additionally illustrated in FIG. 7, comprises a core 50 having a radius r1 surrounded by a layer 52 of cladding material having a radius r2 which in turn is surrounded by an outer cladding layer 54 having a radius r3 (see FIG. 4). An interface 56 exists between core 50 cladding layer 52, and an interface 58 exists between cladding layers 52 and 54. The quality of interface 56 is higher than that of interface 58 because of the methods by which these two interfaces are formed. The required quality of interface 56 decreases as the diameter of layer 52 increases. Generally, the fraction of the optical signal that propagates in layer 54 becomes negligible when the diameter of layer 52 exceeds about 10 μm. It is noted, however, that the highest quality optical waveguide is formed by ensuring that interfaces 56 and 58 are both of the highest possible quality.
Since, as explained in conjunction with FIG. 4, the intensity of the light propagated by the waveguide is only a minimal value at radius r2 and can be made substantially zero within the exterior structural portion formed from tube 42, the material of tube 42 need not be of the high purity required of the light propagating core 50 or cladding layer 52. The material of tube 42 may be normally produced glass having an ordinary or even excessive level of impurities or entrapped bubbles that would render it unsuitable for effective light propagation; however, it must have a viscosity and coefficient of expansion compatible with the waveguide cladding and core materials. Since some portion of the optical signal propagates in cladding layer 54, it is preferred that tube 42 be made of material having a purity which equals that of composite structure 34. Thus, the preferred method of producing tube 42 is to deposit on a mandrel a soot coating by the flame hydrolysis process illustrated in FIG. 1. The composition of this soot is preferably the same as that employed to produce coating 22 of FIG. 2. As described in connection with the formation of composite structure 34, this soot coating is consolidated to form a dense glass layer, and the mandrel is thereafter removed to form the hollow tube 42. Although it is preferred that cladding layers 52 and 54 be formed from the same materials, they could be formed from different materials having similar refractive indices or from materials having slightly different refractive indices, the material having the lower refractive index preferably forming the outer cladding layer 54.
Tube 42 could also be produced by core drilling a solid glass rod, the rough surfaces left by drilling being smoothed by one or more methods such, for example, as laser milling, mechanical polishing, fire polishing, acid etching, or the like. A particularly suitable method for smoothing the inside wall of tube 10 comprises first mechanically polishing the rough surface and thereafter flame polishing the mechanically polished surface. Hydrofluoric acid washing of the surface before and after all polishing operations is desirable to avoid contamination.
A specific example of an optical waveguide produced in accordance with the present invention is as follows. A fused quartz tube mandrel, approximately 5 mm in diameter and 25 cm long is sealed to a suitable handle. Liquid SICl4 is maintained at 33�C in a first container, and liquid GeCl4 is maintained at 43�C in a second container. Nitrogen carrier gas is bubbled through the first container at 2.2 liters per minute and through the second container at 0.5 liters per minute. The resultant vapors entrained within the nitrogen carrier gas are combined and passed through a gas-oxygen flame where the vapors hydrolyze to form a steady stream of particles having a composition of 10% by weight GeO2 and 90% weight SiO2. The stream of particles is directed to the mandrel and a soot layer of these particles is built up to a diameter of about 3.7 cm. A second coating of 100% SiO2 is then applied over the first soot coating by terminating the flow of nitrogen to the liquid GeCl4, thereby causing the introduction of only SiCl4 vapor to the flame. This second stream of particles is continued until a diameter of about 6.1 cm is obtained. The resulting soot preform is placed in a muffle furnace having a hot zone of about 1,450�C to permit the soot particles to fuse and consolidate, thereby forming dense glass layers which are free from particle boundaries. The outside diameter of the outer dense glass layer is about 2.2 cm, and it is about 15 cm long. Concentrated HF is pumped through the hole in the quartz tube mandrel until the entire mandrel and a thin portion of the inner surface of the inner dense glass layer are removed, the resultant composite structure having an inside diameter of about 0.8 cm. The composite structure is then heated to about 1,800�C and drawn to form an intermediate fiber structure having an outside diameter of about 0.35 mm.
To form the outer cladding tube nitrogen carrier gas is bubbled through the first container and the resultant vapor is passed through a gas-oxygen flame where the vapors hydrolyze to form a stream of 100% SiO2 soot particles. The stream of particles is directed to a 5 mm diameter, 25 cm long quartz mandrel tube until a 6.1 cm diameter soot coating is obtained. This soot coating is then consolidated in a furnace having a maximum temperature of about 1,500�C to form on the quartz tube a 15 cm long dense glass layer free from particle boundaries. Concentrated HF is pumped through the mandrel until it is completely removed, and a central hole having a diameter of about 0.8 cm is obtained, the outside tube diameter being about 2.2 cm. A portion about 15 cm long is cut from the partially drawn intermediate fiber of FIG. 5 and is inserted into hole 44 which extends axially through tube 42. The final composite structure so formed is heated to a temperature of about 1,900�C and is drawn to reduce the cross-sectional area thereof, to collapse the first applied layer and to collapse the inner surface of the tube into fused relation with the outer surface of the intermediate fiber structure, thereby forming an optical waveguide fiber having a solid cross-section. The resultant fiber has a core diameter of approximately 3 micrometers and an overall diameter of about 100 micrometers. This fiber is capable of single mode propagation at wavelengths as low as 633 nanometers.
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|Filing date
|Publication date
|Oct 11, 1965
|Dec 27, 1966
|Mosaic Fabrications Inc
|Method of making fiber bundles
|May 6, 1966
|Jul 15, 1969
|American Optical Corp
|Method of making optical couplers
|May 11, 1970
|Jan 16, 1973
|Corning Glass Works
|Method of producing optical waveguide fibers
|Jan 3, 1972
|Jun 5, 1973
|Corning Glass Works
|Method of forming an economic optical waveguide fiber
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Looking for where to go on a family safari holiday with the kids on safari in Africa? We know that parents also need to be able to relax and enjoy themselves and as such can highly recommend the following family safari holiday experiences ideally suited to families travelling with children. These family-friendly safari lodges have everything setup with a host of children's activities on offer so that the whole family can have an incredible family safari holiday in Africa.
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Accessed by means of a wooden swing bridge over a small stream, Jaci's Safari Lodge has eight private rooms and two indulgent suites, accommodating up to twenty guests of any age. The main lodge is a modern take on the traditional safari style. The kitchen is open plan and the staff serve meals both indoors and outdoors or along the…Enquire Now
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GUEST BLOG: Jessie Tuckman
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Finally the spring has sprung! The suns out and the surfs clean! I've been able to stay in the sea for hours as its warmer and awesome waves keep coming.I've been lucky that a friend is furthering her coaching qualifications and I am her mini project for 10 weeks. This means she is giving me tough workouts, things to work on with my surfing and this is really gonna get me fitter and better for the competition surfing. I'm pretty much at the beginning of this but I already feel like this is really good for my surfing..hoping to drop better scores in the English National Surfing Championships which is in May.
I entered the Valentines Memorial Contest on Fistral recently too, it was really dumpy, heavy and pretty big! Crazy conditions which I need to improve my surfing in for the upcoming year. 4th place though so at least I came home with a medal and a smile for trying my best. Fellow Stupid shredders Melodie and Sam were there too so it was awesome to hang out together and represent Stupid!


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There are some wonderful hotels in Singapore but they are very expensive, the better the hotel and location the higher the price. The Bay is not the best hotel in Singapore by a long shot but it is a very good compromise between price and location. Other hotels that are at this price are in places you don't want to stay The Bay although on a busy, noisy main road is a short walk from Vivo City, Harbourfront, the ferry terminal, and Sentosa Island. A footpath behind the hotel leads up to Faber Park, a lush green space with great views of the city. There are a couple of good places in the park to have a bite to eat and a sundowner and you can catch the cable car down to Sentosa for more great views. Rooms are quite small but have everything you need including a complimentary mini-bar which is a first for me. If you just need a base and somewhere to sleep the Bay is great if you need lots of space then its not for you. Rooms at the front overlook the road so can be noisy until the traffic dies down. If you want to go to bed early ask for a room that looks over the park behind. The staff are worth a mention because they are incredibly friendly and helpful especially the front desk.
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- Situated at the gateway to Sentosa, in the heart of it all. The diamante-inspired facade, Bay Hotel Singapore, sets the stage for a pleasant stay of convenience in a modern boutique hotel. The 11-storey hotel comes fully equipped with its own set of modern comforts and facilities, home with 333-rooms offering stunning views of Sentosa or verdant embrace of Mount Faber through its panoramic bay windows. ... more less
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Marcus Denmon's 24 points and five three pointers were career highs. Tiger sophomore forward Laurence Bowers also dropped 12 points. The 41 points off the bench were all Missouri needed to take down the Huskers.
"I thought Marcus (Denmon) came out, (Laurence) Bowers came out and hit a basket for us and then before you know it our defense kicked it in gear," said Missouri Head Coach Mike Anderson after the game.
Nebraska (13-14, 1-11) trailed by just two points at the end of the first half, but things went downhill quickly after that. Missouri outscored Nebraska by 13 points in the second half, which was more than enough for the Tigers to get the win. Senior forward Ryan Anderson explained his team's problems in the second half.
"At halftime, you're winning by five or down by four, down by one, and we just can't expect for things to happen (like) it's just going to be that way in the second half," Ryan Anderson said after the game. "You have to go out and make things happen. As a team, as a unit, you have to make things go your way. You have to make things happen. It's not going to fall in your hands, like here's the lead, here's the win. You have to go make it happen."
Anderson finished the game with 22 points, but just seven of those came in the crucial second half. Anderson started the game by hitting three-consecutive three-pointers, which gave his Huskers a quick 10 point lead. Anderson's 22 points ties a season high and his six three-pointers is one short of his career high of seven.
"I don't know. I was just trying to help my team the best that I could," said Anderson. "They were finding me, just finding me. If you go back and watch it, most of them were just penetrating and kicking (out) or setting me a screen."
Despite a big day for Anderson, the rest of the Huskers struggled. The next closest to Anderson's 22 points was Jorge Brian Diaz, who had nine points. Nebraska scored just 26 points in the entire second half, and Ryan Anderson led the team in the half with just seven points. After the game, Doc Sadler admitted it was obvious that the lack of second half scoring is what hurt his team.
"The thing that concerned me at halftime is scoring 33 points and being down," said Sadler. "We're not a team that has shown consistently that we're going to score 70 points a game. We came out in the second half and had a couple really good looks early and didn't get shots."
The loss for Nebraska is their sixth consecutive, and now their 11th loss in Big 12 play. The schedule for Nebraska gets a little bit better, as there are no teams ranked in the Top 25 left on the schedule. Despite the rough results, Ryan Anderson says his team still believes in each other, but they just continue to come up short.
"We could play with anybody," Anderson said. "We have the talent to play with anybody. It just takes a little bit more than that though."
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Plaid Cymru's Leanne Wood has urged Wales to "reclaim politics", claiming racist language is becoming the norm.
She warned of a "dangerous situation" as politicians opened a "can of worms" over immigration.
As her party conference began, Ms Wood claimed the Tories were developing "an ugly, divisive, nationalistic politics" and called for tolerance.
The Welsh Conservatives said she was "hypocritical" to make such comments as the leader of a nationalist party.
Ms Wood claimed there was an increase in hate crime, as well as anti-immigration and anti-refugee sentiment in some UK newspapers, especially since the referendum vote to leave the European Union.
"More and more we hear racist language becoming the norm," she said.
"I fear we've ended up in this situation because of irresponsible politicians trying to use rhetoric against immigration in order to make political points, for example for Brexit.
"But we've opened a can of worms now and we are potentially in quite a dangerous situation."
Ms Wood said people had an "opportunity" to change the tone of the debate, saying: "I want people in Wales to reclaim politics.
"We saw from the Tory party conference, the language, the attempts to try to take UKIP's base back is developing an ugly, divisive, nationalistic politics.
"We can be much more positive, much more global in our thinking and more tolerant than politics has been in the recent past".
'Think twice'
A spokesman for the Welsh Conservatives rejected the criticism and claimed they were an "inclusive" party.
"Leanne Wood should think twice before bandying around words like 'divisive' and 'nationalistic' when describing other parties," he said.
"After all, let's not forget that she herself presides over a nationalist party whose ultimate aim is to separate Wales from the United Kingdom."
Ms Wood is due to speak at the Plaid Cymru conference in Llangollen on Saturday.
On Friday, Ynys Mon AM Rhun ap Iorwerth told the conference that "hard Brexiters" mustn't be allowed to "have the last laugh" on Wales' future by taking the UK out of the European single market.
"Yes, Wales voted to leave," he said.
"But I don't think Wales wants to take leave of its senses when it comes to our economic future."
Earlier, the conference observed a minute's silence to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Aberfan disaster.
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Dr. Claver Soriano MD
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