Abstract:
An optical fiber having an axial direction and a cross section perpendicular to the axial direction, and a method and preform for producing such an optical fiber. The optical fiber is adapted to guide light at a wavelength λ, and includes a core region, an inner cladding region surrounding said core region, and at least one of a first type of feature including a void and a surrounding first silica material. The core, the inner cladding region and the first type of feature extends along said axial direction over at least a part of the length of the optical fiber. The first silica material has a first chlorine concentration of about 300 ppm or less.
Abstract:
An optical fiber having an axial direction and a cross section perpendicular to the axial direction, and a method and preform for producing such an optical fiber. The optical fiber is adapted to guide light at a wavelength λ, and includes a core region, an inner cladding region surrounding said core region, and at least one of a first type of feature including a void and a surrounding first silica material. The core, the inner cladding region and the first type of feature extends along said axial direction over at least a part of the length of the optical fiber. The first silica material has a first chlorine concentration of about 300 ppm or less.
Abstract:
An optical fiber having an axial direction and a cross section perpendicular to the axial direction, and a method and preform for producing such an optical fiber. The optical fiber is adapted to guide light at a wavelength λ, and includes a core region, an inner cladding region surrounding said core region, and at least one of a first type of feature including a void and a surrounding first silica material. The core, the inner cladding region and the first type of feature extends along said axial direction over at least a part of the length of the optical fiber. The first silica material has a first chlorine concentration of about 300 ppm or less.
Abstract:
Hollow ingots of transparent synthetic vitreous silica glass of external diameter greater than 400 mm and internal diameter greater than 300 mm are disclosed. The ingots are substantially free from bubbles or inclusions greater than 100 μm in diameter, have no more than 100 ppB of any individual metallic impurity, and have chlorine concentration less than 5 ppM. Also disclosed are methods for producing such ingots, in which a porous soot body of density greater than 0.4 g/cm3 is deposited on an oxidation resistant mandrel. The soot body is dehydrated on a mandrel comprising graphite, carbon fiber reinforced carbon, silicon carbide, silicon impregnated silicon carbide, silicon carbide-coated graphite or vitreous silica, either under vacuum or in the presence of a reducing gas, and then sintered to transparent pore-free glass under vacuum or in an atmosphere of helium.
Abstract:
The production of quartz glass granules comprises the granulation of pyrogenically produced silicic acid and the formation of a SiO2 granulate (9), the drying and cleaning of the SiO2 granulate (9) by heating in an atmosphere containing halogen, and the vitrification of the SiO2 granulate (9) under a treatment gas which contains at least 30% by volume of helium and/or hydrogen. This process is time-consuming and expensive. In order to provide a method which, starting from a porous SiO2 granulate (9), allows the cost-effective production of dense, synthetic quartz glass granules suitable for melting bubble-free components of quartz glass, the invention proposes that the cleaning and vitrification of the SiO2 granulate (9) and a post-treatment of the vitrified quartz glass granules are carried out in each case in a rotary tube (6) of a rotary kiln (1), said rotary tube rotating about a central axis (7), wherein the rotary tube (6) comprises an inner wall made of a ceramic material during vitrification, and wherein the vitrified quartz glass granules are subjected to a post-treatment during a treatment period of at least 10 minutes in an atmosphere which contains less than 20% of helium or hydrogen at a treatment temperature of 300° C. or more.
Abstract:
A method for producing a solar crucible includes providing a crucible base body of transparent or opaque fused silica having an inner wall, providing a dispersion containing amorphous SiO2 particles, applying a SiO2-containing slip layer to at least a part of the inner wall by using the dispersion, drying the slip layer to form a SiO2-containing grain layer and thermally densifying the SiO2-containing grain layer to form a diffusion barrier layer. The dispersion contains a dispersion liquid and amorphous SiO2 particles that form a coarse fraction and a fine fraction with SiO2 nanoparticles. The weight percentage of the SiO2 nanoparticles based on the solids content of the dispersion is in the range between 2 and 15% by weight. The SiO2-containing grain layer is thermally densified into the diffusion barrier layer through the heating up of the silicon in the crystal growing process.
Abstract:
A method of inspecting a synthetic silica glass molded body includes: irradiating the synthetic silica glass molded body with a spectrum line of an Hg lamp having a wavelength of 248 nm; measuring light emitted by the synthetic silica glass molded body; and a procedure which may include screening a portion which satisfies a condition that a ratio of the bright line intensity and the fluorescent light intensity is of a certain value or less, or which may include determining whether a condition that a ratio of a minimum value and a maximum value of a measured fluorescent light intensity is in a certain range is satisfied or not.
Abstract:
A method of inspecting a synthetic silica glass molded body includes: irradiating the synthetic silica glass molded body with a spectrum line of an Hg lamp having a wavelength of 248 nm; measuring light emitted by the synthetic silica glass molded body; and a procedure which may include screening a portion which satisfies a condition that a ratio of the bright line intensity and the fluorescent light intensity is of a certain value or less, or which may include determining whether a condition that a ratio of a minimum value and a maximum value of a measured fluorescent light intensity is in a certain range is satisfied or not.
Abstract:
Hollow ingots of transparent synthetic vitreous silica glass of external diameter greater than 400 mm and internal diameter greater than 300 mm are disclosed. The ingots are substantially free from bubbles or inclusions greater than 100 μm in diameter, have no more than 100 ppB of any individual metallic impurity, and have chlorine concentration less than 5 ppM. Also disclosed are methods for producing such ingots, in which a porous soot body of density greater than 0.4 g/cm3 is deposited on an oxidation resistant mandrel. The soot body is dehydrated on a mandrel comprising graphite, carbon fibre reinforced carbon, silicon carbide, silicon impregnated silicon carbide, silicon carbide-coated graphite or vitreous silica, either under vacuum or in the presence of a reducing gas, and then sintered to transparent pore-free glass under vacuum or in an atmosphere of helium.
Abstract translation:公开了外径大于400mm,内径大于300mm的透明合成玻璃石英玻璃的中空铸锭。 锭基本上没有直径大于100um的气泡或夹杂物,具有不超过100ppB的任何单独的金属杂质,并且氯浓度小于5ppM。 还公开了生产这种锭的方法,其中密度大于0.4g / cm 3的多孔烟灰体沉积在抗氧化心轴上。 在真空下或在还原气体存在下,烟灰体在包括石墨,碳纤维增强碳,碳化硅,硅浸渍的碳化硅,碳化硅涂覆的石墨或玻璃状二氧化硅的心轴上脱水,然后烧结成透明 无孔玻璃在真空或氦气氛中。
Abstract:
An optical fiber includes a glass fiber having a glass core and a cladding which contains voids spaced apart from the core. The voids act as trapping sites for ingressing molecules from the surrounding environment, thereby reducing the effect of such molecules on the fiber's light-transmission properties.