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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a silica glass material which is hardly devitrified even under such a condition that it is brought into direct contact with an active metal or its halide in a high temperature state; and to provide a discharge lamp which is hardly devitrified and has a prolonged service life. SOLUTION: The silica glass material is used in an application where the silica glass material is used while being brought into contact with an active metal or its halide. The silica glass material is characterized in that a halogen-containing silica glass layer, in which the content of metal impurities is ≤100 ppb and the halogen content is 100-5,000 ppm, is formed on the surface brought into contact with the active metal or its halide. A method for producing the same and a method for preventing devitrification are also provided. Further, the discharge lamp has a light-emitting tube in which the active metal or its halide is enclosed and is characterized in that the halogen-containing silica glass layer is formed on the inner surface of the light-emitting tube. COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a multimode optical fiber glass preform having excellent bending characteristics and transmission band characteristics by increasing the difference in refractive index at the interface between a core and a cladding. SOLUTION: In the production of a glass preform, the difference in refractive index at the interface i between a core and a cladding is increased because the addition of a refractive-index-lowering dopant to the cladding decreases the refractive index N 2 of the cladding to steepen the refractive index change in the radial direction of the cladding near the interface i. This improves the property of confining light within the core, and therefore a bending loss does not occur because higher modes do not propagate to the cladding even when the optical fiber is bent. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a rod lens and an optical component which have an α-power refractive index distribution with small fluctuations of the refractive index in a refractive index distribution, small loss, and superior light convergence characteristics. SOLUTION: This rod lens consists principally of quartz glass which contains one of fluorine and diboron trioxide and diphosphorus pentoxide, or contains diphosphorus pentoxide together with fluorine and diboron trioxide. The concentration of fluorine and diboron trioxide gradually increase radially outward from the center axis of the rod lens to give the α-power refractive index such that the refractive index distribution of the rod lens decreases radially outward from the center axis. The rod lens is obtained by making glass raw material gas flow in a quartz pipe while rotating the quartz pipe on its axis, producing glass by heating the raw material gas to deposit the glass on the inner wall of the quartz pipe, and then heating the quartz pipe in which glass particulates are deposited to make the pipe solid. COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Abstract:
PURPOSE:To obtain a preform for polarization-keeping optical fiber having low transmission loss caused by structural defects, by forming a specific distribution of the sintering degree to the clad part of a porous glass preform, adding a dopant to the preform, and heating and converting the preform to a transparent glass. CONSTITUTION:(i) A porous preform (the sign 1 is seed rod) composed of the core part 2 and the clad part 3 is oscillated vertically along the direction of the arrow without rotating, and heated with an oxy-hydrogen burner 6 parallel to the center xis of the preform to form a part 4 having increased sintering degree. (ii) The product is preliminarily sintered at about 700-1,400 deg.C, cooled to room temperature, immersed in a dopant solution to effect the diffusion of the dopant into the preform, and heated to convert the dopant to oxide. Since the distribution of the dopant is determined by the sintering degree distribution of the soot, a part 5 having high dopant concentration is formed. (iii) Finally, the treated preform is subjected to the calcination process to obtain a transparent glass.
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PURPOSE:To adjust easily the bulk density and obtain the titled large-sized base material stably in high yield, by flowing an Si hydride as a glass raw material having a greater heat of reaction than the glass raw material to be flowed in the central burner into the second burner and thereafter from the center. CONSTITUTION:A gas, e.g. SiCl4, GeCl4, H2, O2 or Ar, is made to flow from a burner 11 forming the central part in producing a porous glass base material, and an Si hydride compound having a greater heat of reaction than SiCl4, e.g. SiHCl3, SiH2Cl2 or SiH4, H2, O2 or Ar, is made to flow from the second burner 12 and burned. the above-mentioned glass raw material is subjected to flame hydrolysis, and the formed granular glass is deposited on a rotating starting material and grown in the rotational direction to afford the titled porous base material.