With the improvement of fabrication technology of optical fiber preform
the fabrication efficiency and preform size have been greatly improved. However
the corresponding testing equipment cannot keep up with the market
and there is no equipment that can complete the geometric parameters measurement of large-size optical fiber preform
especially the concentric parameters of core and clad. Based on the demand of technological breakthrough
this paper analyzes and establishes the theoretical model of optical imaging method to measure the concentricity of core and sheath from the physical characteristics of optical fiber preform
and puts forward the construction scheme of measurement system. The feasibility of the method is verified by experiments and compared with the final product optical fiber results.