Abstract:
An optical fiber preform of the present embodiment comprises a core portion and a cladding each comprised of silica glass. The core portion has a first dopant region including a central axis of the core portion and a second dopant region away from the central axis. The first dopant region contains a first dopant selected from among Na, K, and their compounds, and a concentration of the first dopant is 10 atomic ppm or more but 2,000 atomic ppm or less. The second dopant region contains a second dopant reducing viscosity of the silica glass. The second dopant has, as a characteristic at a temperature of 2,000° C. to 2,300° C., a diffusion coefficient of 1×10−12 cm2/s or higher but lower than that of the first dopant, and a concentration of the second dopant region is 10 atomic ppm or more.
Abstract:
A preparation method of rare earth ions doped alkaline earth metal silicate luminescent glass is provided. The steps involve: step 1, mixing the source compounds of cerium, terbium and alkaline earth metals and putting the mixture into solvent to get a mixed solution; step 2, impregnating the nanometer pores glass with the mixed solution obtained in step 1; step 3: calcining the impregnated nanometer pores glass obtained in step 2 in a reducing atmosphere, cooling to room temperature, then obtaining the cerium and terbium co-doped alkaline earth metal silicate luminescent glass. Besides, the rare earth ions doped alkaline earth metal silicate luminescent glass prepared with aforesaid method is also provided. In the prepared luminescent glass, cerium ions can transmit absorbed energy to terbium ions under the excitation of UV light due to the co-doping of cerium ions. As a result, the said luminescent glass has higher luminous intensity than the glass only doped with terbium.
Abstract:
The invention relates to an extra-clear glass sheet, i.e. a glass sheet with high energy transmission, which can be used in particular in the field of solar energy. Specifically, the invention relates to a glass sheet having a composition that includes, in an amount expressed in wt % for the total weight of the glass: 60-78% of SiO2; 0-10% of Al2O3; 0-5% of B2O3; 0-15% of CaO; 0-10% of MgO; 5-20% of Na2O; 0-10% of K2O; 0-5% of BaO, wherein the total amount of iron (in the form of Fe2O3) is 0.002-0.03%, and the composition includes a ratio of manganese/(total iron) of 1 to 8.5, the manganese content being expressed in the form of MnO in wt % relative to the total weight of the glass.
Abstract:
Fused silica glass having an internal transmittance of UV with 245 nm wavelength, being at least 95% at 10 mm thickness, a OH content of not larger than 5 ppm, and a content of Li, Na, K, Mg, Ca and Cu each being smaller than 0.1 ppm. Preferably the glass has a viscosity coefficient at 1215° C. of at least 1011.5 Pa·s; and a Cu ion diffusion coefficient of not larger than 1×10−10 cm2/sec in a depth range of greater than 20 μm up to 100 μm, from the surface, when leaving to stand at 1050° C. in air for 24 hours. The glass is made by cristobalitizing powdery silica raw material; then, fusing the cristobalitized silica material in a non-reducing atmosphere. The glass exhibits a high transmittance of ultraviolet, visible and infrared rays, has high purity and heat resistance, and exhibits a reduced diffusion rate of metal impurities, therefore, it is suitable for various optical goods, semiconductor-production apparatus members, and liquid crystal display production apparatus members.
Abstract:
The present invention is a method for producing a silica container having a substrate containing gaseous bubbles in its outer peripheral part and an inner layer comprised of a transparent silica glass formed on an inner surface of the substrate, wherein a powdered raw material for forming a substrate containing Li, Na, and K with the total concentration of 50 or less ppm by weight and a powdered raw material for forming an inner layer containing Ca, Sr, and Ba with the total concentration of 50 to 2000 ppm by weight are prepared; a preliminarily molded substrate is formed in a frame; a preliminarily molded inner layer is formed on an inner surface of the preliminarily molded substrate; and the preliminarily molded substrate and molded inner layer are heated from inside thereof by a discharge-heat melting method under a gas atmosphere containing a hydrogen gas or a helium gas or a gas mixture thereof with the ratio of more than 10% by volume thereby making an outer peripheral part of the preliminarily molded substrate to a sintered body and an inner peripheral part of the preliminarily molded substrate and the preliminarily molded inner layer to a fused glass body. With this, a method for producing a silica container, producible with a low cost and having a high durability and dimensional precision, and a container of this sort can be provided.
Abstract:
Disclosed in the application are a synthetic silica glass having low fluence-dependent transmission, particularly at about 193 nm, and a process for making the same. The glass may desirably exhibit a low level of fluorescence at 290 and 390 nm when activated at about 248 nm. The glass may desirably exhibit low level of LIWFD, [SiH*] and/or [ODC].
Abstract:
Highly durable silica glass containing 0.01% to 2% by weight of at least one element selected from magnesium, calcium, strontium, barium, yttrium, hafnium and zirconium. The silica glass is produced by melting a powdery material comprising a finely divided silica powder and a finely divided zirconium-containing substance by oxyhydrogen flame or plasma are to form an accumulated molten material layer, and extending the molten material layer outwardly in radial directions.
Abstract:
Highly durable silica glass containing 0.01% to 2% by weight of at least one element selected from magnesium, calcium, strontium, barium, yttrium, hafnium and zirconium. The silica glass is produced by melting a powdery material comprising a finely divided silica powder and a finely divided zirconium-containing substance by oxyhydrogen flame or plasma arc to form an accumulated molten material layer, and extending the molten material layer outwardly in radial directions.
Abstract:
The invention provides a process of obtaining a gradient index type of optical element with profiles of first and second metal component concentrations by the sol-gel method. The process of fabricating a gradient index type of optical element comprises steps of dipping a silicon component-containing wet gel prepared by the sol-gel method in a solution containing an alkoxide of at least one metal component selected from a first group consisting of Ti, Nb, Ta, and Zr or a derivative thereof to thereby impart to the wet gel a concentration gradient with a concentration of the first metal component decreasing from a periphery to a center of the wet gel, allowing at least one metal component selected from a second group consisting of Ba, La, Y, Gd, Sr, Ca, and Zn to be dissolved out of the wet gel to thereby impart to the wet gel a concentration gradient with a concentration of the second metal component increasing from the periphery to the center of the wet gel, and drying, and firing the wet gel.
Abstract:
Soft quartz glass having low viscosity and a low thermal coefficient of expansion, high electrical insulation capability and free from release of contaminants, when used as a bulb of an incandescent lamp or as an envelope in an arc vessel of a discharge lamp, is a quartz glass made of ultra-pure quartz (SiO.sub.2), for example having a purity of 99.99 mol-%, doped with stoichiometric compounds of alkaline earth oxides with boron oxide, optionally also with a small quantity of Al.sub.2 O.sub.3 in an overall quantity of the doping substance of between about 0.05% to 0.8%, by weight.
Abstract translation:当用作白炽灯的灯泡或放电灯的电弧容器中的封套时,具有低粘度和低热膨胀系数,高电绝缘能力并且不会释放污染物的软石英玻璃是石英 用超纯石英(SiO 2)制成的玻璃,例如纯度为99.99mol%,掺杂有化学计量的碱土金属氧化物与氧化硼的化合物,任选地还含有少量的掺杂物质的总量的Al 2 O 3 在约0.05%至0.8%之间。