The invention relates to a
radiation-resistant high-performance
silica fiber and a preparation method thereof. The
radiation-resistant high-performance
silica fiber provided by the invention is composed of a
silica glass material based
fiber core, an inner cladding and an outer cladding, wherein the
fiber core contains 0-2000ppm of hydroxyl group and 0-1000ppm of
fluorine, the inner cladding is doped with 10000-20000ppm of
fluorine, and the outer cladding is
silica glass containing 1000-6000ppm of
fluorine. The
radiation-resistant high-performance
silica fiber provided by the invention can beprepared by adopting a combined process method of VAD (vapour axial deposition) and MCVD (modified chemical
vapour deposition) or PCVD (
plasma chemical
vapour deposition), namely a core layer is prepared by adopting VAD firstly, and different deposition and vitrifaction technological conditions are controlled to obtain core rods with different hydroxyl group and fluorine contents, the inner cladding doped with fluorine is prepared by adopting an MCVD or PCVD process, a sleeve containing a low-
refractive index inner cladding is obtained, and then the core rods and the obtained sleeve are fusedinto a prefabricated rod or combined into a prefabricated rod
assembly, and finally direct
wire drawing is carried out to obtain the silica
fiber. The silica fiber can be used for
information transmission of a communication
system, especially can be used as both a radiation-resistant
optical fiber to guarantee long-distance communication and an energy transmitting
optical fiber for transmitting
ultraviolet light under the radiation environment.