Abstract:
Glass is produced by depositing presintering composition on a preform set into move in front of a plasma torch which moves back and forth substantially parallel to a longitudinal direction of the preform, a first feed duct feeds the plasma with grains of the presintering composition while optionally a second feed duct feeds the plasma with a fluorine or chlorine compound, preferably a fluorine compound, mixed with a carrier gas, whereby the presintering composition consists of granules of metal oxides or metalloid oxides of a pyrogenic silicon dioxide powder with a BET surface area of 30 to 90 m^2/g, a DBP index of 80 or less, a mean aggregate area of less than 25000 nm^2 and a mean aggregate circumference of less than 1000 nm, wherein at least 70% of the aggregates have a circumference of less than 1300 nm or a high-purity pyrogenically prepared silicon dioxide having metal contents of less than 0.2 Vg/g, which is prepared by reacting a silicon tetrachloride having a metal content of less than 30 ppb by means of flame hydrolysis.
Abstract:
PURPOSE: Provided is a process for producing an optical fiber preform by using modified chemical vapor deposition(MCVD) containing dehydration and desalination, which removes hydroxide groups causing light absorption loss and chlorine causing light scattering loss. CONSTITUTION: The process comprises: a sooting process to produce silica soot(12) by injecting reaction gas and oxygen gas into a silicon oxide tube(10) and heating the tube(10) at a sintering temperature or lower, especially 1400-1600deg.C by using a reciprocating torch(14); the dehydration process to remove the hydroxide groups from the silica soot(12) by injecting a mixed gas containing chlorine into the tube(10) and heating at a lower temperature than the sooting process, especially 900-1200deg.C by using the reciprocating torch(14) with a velocity of less than 700mm/min; the desalination process to remove the chlorine from the silica soot(12) by injecting a mixed gas containing oxygen gas into the tube(10) and heating at a higher temperature than the dehydration process and a lower temperature than the sooting process by using the reciprocating torch(14) with a velocity of less than 700mm/min; a sintering process to sinter the silica soot(12) by heating the tube(10) at the sintering temperature or higher, especially 1700deg.C or higher by using the reciprocating torch(14) with a velocity of less than 700mm/min.
Abstract:
본 발명은 자외선조사 열악화를 저감하게 한 광파이버, 그 밖의 석영유리물품 및 그 제조방법을 제공하는 것을 과제로 한 것이며, 그 해결수단으로서, 원료 석영유리물품에 전자파를 조사하여 유리결함을 발생하게 하는 제 1공정과, 그 후에, 수소가스로 이루어진 분위기에 침지하는 제 2공정에 의해, 자외선조사에 의한 자외선영역에서의 광흡수의 증가가 실질적으로 발생하지 않도록 하게 하는 것을 특징으로 한 제조방법 및 이와 같이 해서 이루어진 석영유리물품이며, 전자파로서는 자외선, 진공자외선, X선 또는 γ선을 사용하고, 조사선량이 10∼10 4 ㏉인 것이 특히 바람직하다. 또, 상기 제 2공정후에 재차 전자파를 조사하는 제 3공정을 거치는 것을 특징으로 하는 상기 방법 및 석영유리물품은, 특히 광파이버에 적용해서 내자외선 특성을 향상시킬 수 있다. 제 3공정의 전자파로서는 엑사이머레이저광 또는 γ선이 특히 바람직하다. 또, 제 4공정으로서 제 3공정을 거친 후의 석영유리물품으로부터 수소 빼기를 해도 된다.
Abstract:
To obtain a crystallized glass member having a curved shape and provide a method for producing the same. A method for producing a crystallized glass member having a curved shape, including a deformation step for adjusting the temperature of a plate glass to a first temperature zone from higher than [At+40]° C. to [At+146]° C. or lower, where At is the yield point (° C.) of the plate glass and deforming at least part of the plate glass into a curved shape by external force acting on the plate glass while precipitating crystals from the plate glass.
Abstract:
An optical fiber has a core region that is doped with one or more viscosity-reducing dopants in respective amounts that are configured, such that, in a Raman spectrum with a frequency shift of approximately 600 cm−1, the fiber has a nanoscale structure having an integrated D2 line defect intensity of less than 0.025. Alternatively, the core region is doped with one or more viscosity-reducing dopants in respective amounts that are configured such that the fiber has a residual axial compressive stress with a stress magnitude of more than 20 MPa and a stress radial extent between 2 and 7 times the core radius.According to another aspect of the invention a majority of the optical propagation through the fiber is supported by an identified group of fiber regions comprising the core region and one or more adjacent cladding regions. The fiber regions are doped with one or more viscosity-reducing dopants in respective amounts and radial positions that are configured to achieve viscosity matching among the fiber regions in the identified group.
Abstract:
Provided is a silica glass member which exhibits high optical transparency to vacuum ultraviolet light and has a low thermal expansion coefficient of 4.0−10−7/K or less at near room temperature, particularly a silica glass member which is suitable as a photomask substrate to be used in a double patterning exposure process using an ArF excimer laser (193 nm) as a light source. The silica glass member is used in a photolithography process using a vacuum ultraviolet light source, in which the fluorine concentration is 1 wt % or more and 5 wt % or less, and the thermal expansion coefficient at from 20° C. to 50° C. is 4.0×10−7/K or less.
Abstract:
A doped silica-titania (“DST”) glass article that includes a glass article having a glass composition comprising a silica-titania base glass containing titania at 7 to 14 wt. % and a balance of silica, and a dopant selected from the group consisting of (a) F at 0.7 to 1.5 wt. %, (b) B2O3 at 1.5 to 5 wt. %, (c) OH at 1000 to 3000 ppm, and (d) B2O3 at 0.5 to 2.5 wt. % and OH at 100 to 1400 ppm. The glass article has an expansivity slope of less than about 1.3 ppb/K2 at 20° C. For DST glass articles doped with F or B2O3, the OH level can be held to less than 10 ppm, or less than 100 ppm, respectively. In many aspects, the DST glass articles are substantially free of titania in crystalline form.
Abstract:
An optical fiber containing an alkali metal and capable of reducing Rayleigh scattering loss is provided. An optical fiber has a core and a cladding made of silica glass and enclosing the core. The cladding contains fluorine and has a refractive index lower than the refractive index of the core. The core contains first group dopants selected from the group of Na element, K element, or a compound thereof at an average concentration of 0.2 ppm or more and 10 ppm or less. The core also contains second group dopants for reducing the viscosity of silica glass and having a diffusion coefficient of 1×10−12 cm2/s or more and smaller than the diffusion coefficient of the first group dopants, by an average concentration of 0.2 ppm or more at a temperature of 2000° C. to 2300° C.
Abstract:
A method for producing a silica container having a rotational symmetry includes forming a preliminarily molded article by feeding a powdered substrate's raw material to an inner wall of an outer frame having aspiration holes with rotating the frame, and forming a silica substrate. The preliminarily molded article is aspirated from an outer peripheral side with controlling a humidity inside the outer frame by ventilating gases present in the outer frame with charging from inside the preliminarily molded article a gas mixture comprised of an O2 gas and an inert gas and made below a prescribed dew-point temperature by dehumidification, and at the same time heated from inside the preliminarily molded article by a discharge-heat melting method with carbon electrodes, thereby making an outer peripheral part of the preliminarily molded article to a sintered body while an inner peripheral part to a fused glass body.