Abstract:
An optical member made of silica glass manufactured by the direct method where a material gas comprising an organosilicon compound is allowed to react in an oxidizing flame, said optical member having a 2×1014 molecules/cm3 or less concentration of formyl radical generated by X-ray irradiation whose dose is 0.01 Mrad or more and 1 Mrad or less.
Abstract translation:通过直接法制造的由石英玻璃制成的光学构件,其中包含有机硅化合物的材料气体在氧化火焰中反应,所述光学构件具有2×10 14分子/ cm 3 通过X射线照射产生的或更少浓度的甲酰基,其剂量为0.01Mrad以上且1Mrad以下。
Abstract:
A synthetic quartz glass preform is produced by flame hydrolysis with subsequent cooling and is suitable for the application of high-energy DUV radiation in the wave length range under 250 nm. The preform has a core area which contains ≧1150 ppm OH, a strain double refraction of ≦5 nm/cm and a resistance to high-energy DUV radiation as a result of a transmission reduction of ΔT ≦0.1%/cm thickness. The quartz glass has been exposed to the following radiation: wavelength λ1=248 nm, laser shot frequency ≧300 Hz, laser shot value ≧109 and lumination ≦10 mJ/cm2, and wavelength λ2=193 nm, laser shot frequency ≧300 Hz, laser shot value ≧109 and lumination
Abstract:
Disclosed is a method of manufacturing an optical fiber perform using MCVD including dehydration and dechlorination, which executes the following process repeatedly with changing the composition of soot generation gas according to the refractive index profile, the process including the steps of: forming a soot layer having pores on an inner wall of a deposition tube at a temperature lower than the soot sintering temperature with putting soot generation gas and oxygen gas into the rotating deposition tube; removing hydroxyl groups with keeping the pores by putting dehydration gas into the deposition tube; removing chlorine impurities existing in the soot layer with keeping the pores by putting dehydration gas into the deposition tube; and sintering the soot layer by heating the deposition tube at a temperature over the soot sintering temperature.
Abstract:
An optical waveguide fiber or body having a doped outer region which can be utilized in an optical coupler, a preform which can serve as the precursor for the fiber, an optical coupler, and methods of making same. Water, for example in the form of H2O and/or D2O, may be added to the cladding of the optical waveguide fiber or body.
Abstract:
Glass powders, methods for producing glass powders and compositions comprising glass powders. The powders preferably have a small particle size, narrow size distribution and a spherical morphology. The method includes forming the particles by a spray pyrolysis technique. The invention also includes novel devices and products formed from the glass powders. The compositions may be deposited on a substrate using various techniques including ink-jet printing.
Abstract:
Lithographic methods are disclosed. In one such method, a pulsed ultraviolet radiation source for producing ultraviolet lithography radiation having a wavelength shorter than about 300 nm at a fluence of less than 10 mJ/cm2/pulse and a high purity fused silica lithography glass having a concentration of molecular hydrogen of between about 0.02null1018 molecules/cm3 and about 0.18null1018 molecules/cm3 are provided. A lithography pattern is formed with the ultraviolet lithography radiation; the lithography pattern is reduced to produce a reduced lithography pattern; and the reduced lithography pattern is projected onto a ultraviolet radiation sensitive lithography medium to form a printed lithography pattern. At least one of the forming, reducing, and projecting steps includes transmitting the ultraviolet lithography radiation through the high purity fused silica lithography glass. Lithography systems and high purity fused silica lithography glass are also described.
Abstract:
An object of the present invention is to provide an optical fiber manufacturing method and an optical fiber in which an increase in the transmission loss is suppressed by preventing hydroxyl group from entering near the core portion. This invention provides a method for manufacturing an optical fiber 10 including forming a glass pipe 16 by applying a ring portion 15 on the inner face of a starting pipe 14 as a starting material, inserting a glass rod 13 that becomes a central core portion 11 and a depressed portion 12 into the inside of the glass pipe 16, integrating the glass pipe 16 and the glass rod 13 by collapse to form a glass body 17, forming a preform 10a by providing a jacket portion 18 outside the glass body 17, and drawing the preform 10a, wherein the thickness of the starting pipe 14 is set in a range from 4 mm to 8 mm.
Abstract:
High purity silicon oxyfluoride glass suitable for use as a photomask substrates for photolithography applications in the VUV wavelength region below 190 nm is disclosed with the silicon oxyfluoride glass having a preferred fluorine content
Abstract:
The present invention is a method of making a lithography photomask and photomask blank. The method of making the lithography photomask and photomask blank includes providing a silicon oxyfluoride glass tube having an OH content less than 50 ppm. The method further includes cutting the silicon oxyfluoride glass tube, flattening the silicon oxyfluoride glass tube, and forming the flattened cut silicon oxyfluoride glass tube into a photomask blank having a planar surface. The present invention includes a glass lithography mask preform. The glass lithography mask preform is a longitudinal silicon oxyfluoride glass tube that has an OH contentnull10 ppm, a F wt. % concentrationnull0.5 wt. %.
Abstract:
Lithographic methods are disclosed. In one such method, a pulsed ultraviolet radiation source for producing ultraviolet lithography radiation having a wavelength shorter than about 300 nm at a fluence of less than 10 mJ/cm2/pulse and a high purity fused silica lithography glass having a concentration of molecular hydrogen of between about 0.02×1018 molecules/cm3 and about 0.18×1018 molecules/cm3 are provided. A lithography pattern is formed with the ultraviolet lithography radiation; the lithography pattern is reduced to produce a reduced lithography pattern; and the reduced lithography pattern is projected onto a ultraviolet radiation sensitive lithography medium to form a printed lithography pattern. At least one of the forming, reducing, and projecting steps includes transmitting the ultraviolet lithography radiation through the high purity fused silica lithography glass. Lithography systems and high purity fused silica lithography glass are also described.
Abstract translation:公开了平版印刷方法。 在一种这样的方法中,用于产生波长短于约300nm的波长小于10mJ / cm 2 /脉冲的紫外光刻辐射的脉冲紫外辐射源和具有浓度为 提供约0.02×10 18分子/ cm 3和约0.18×10 18分子/ cm 3之间的分子氢。 用紫外光刻法形成光刻图案; 光刻图案被减少以产生减小的光刻图案; 并且将还原的光刻图案投影到紫外线照射敏感光刻介质上以形成印刷光刻图案。 形成,还原和突出步骤中的至少一个步骤包括通过高纯度熔融石英光刻玻璃传输紫外光刻辐射。 还描述了平版印刷系统和高纯度熔融石英光刻玻璃。