This application allows to compute the drawing parameters to realize a tubular hollow-core optical fiber. The method used in this software is that described in the paper of Jasion et al. [1] with two minor corrections:
- The tab "Direct computation" computes the evolution of all the structural fiber parameters during the drawing process with the input chosen by the user.
- The tab "Optimization" computes the pressures and the furnace temperature that allow to obtain a target fiber from a given preform.
- The tab "Parameters" (in v1.3) allows to modify the materials properties that can depends on the temperature.
The application has been designed with MATLAB R2024b with the optimization and parallel toolboxes. It can be launched directly from the source code: the main file is HARF_drawing.mlapp. If you do not have this matlab version/toolbox, an installation file for windows 10/11 is provided in the release.
If you use this software in a publication, you can cite it as follow: O. Vanvincq, "Harf-drawing" (2019), https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3582197
All the distances used in the program are shown in the picture below.
List of the parameters used in the program :
- Pcore : core pressure
- Pcap : overpressure between capillaries and core
- Feed speed : speed of the preform
- Vf : drawing speed
- L : computing length. must be greater than the furnace length.
- D0 and Df : value of D at z=0 (preform) and z=L (fiber)
- Dc0 and Dcf : value of Dc at z=0 (preform) and z=L (fiber)
- d0 and df : value of d at z=0 (preform) and z=L (fiber)
- dc0 and dcf : value of dc at z=0 (preform) and z=L (fiber)
- tf : fiber capillaries thickness, tf=(Dcf-dcf)/2
- Dcore : fiber core diameter
- Draw tension : draw tension at z=L
- Tmax : maximum temperature of the furnace. At z=0, the preform temperature is assumed to be equal to the furnace temperature decreased by 500°C.
- Furnace length : must be lower than L. The température outside the furnace is fixed to 20°C.
- Furnace temperature profile : function of z that described the evolution of the normalized furnace temperature (T/Tmax) between z=0 and the furnace length
- Max(Rc/Rcontact) : if this value is greater than 1, the capillaries are in contact and the fiber is deformed.
[1] Gregory T. Jasion, John R. Hayes, Natalie V. Wheeler, Yong Chen, Thomas D. Bradley, David J. Richardson, and Francesco Poletti "Fabrication of tubular anti-resonant hollow core fibers : modelling, draw dynamics and process optimization", Opt. Express, 27(15) :20567-20582, 2019.