AN APPARATUS FOR MANUFACTURING OPTICAL COMPONENTS

摘要

An integrated system for manufacturing optical devices is disclosed. The system uses product recipes that are stored in a database. The product recipes were derived from desired product characteristics, material characteristics of the components used to manufacture the product, related viscosity modeling information, and the theoretical operating set point of the manufacturing system. The manufacturing system is programmed to operate according to a theoretical operating set point. To account for material and manufacturing system variances, optical monitoring and feedback is employed to adjust the product's characteristics during the draw process. Devices that are out of tolerance despite the use of feedback are measured and compared to other product types. If they fall within the specification range of another product type, they are reclassified and re-binned instead of being scrapped.