Abstract:
The invention provides techniques for drawing fibers that include conducting, semiconducting, and insulating materials in intimate contact and prescribed geometries. The resulting fiber exhibits engineered electrical and optical functionalities along extended fiber lengths. The invention provides corresponding processes for producing such fibers, including assembling a fiber preform of a plurality of distinct materials, e.g., of conducting, semiconducting, and insulating materials, and drawing the preform into a fiber.
Abstract:
A method for producing a sulfide glass or a sulfide glass ceramic being capable of conducting a lithium ion, which comprises subjecting metallic lithium, simple sulfur and simple phosphorus as raw materials, which constitute the sulfide glass and the sulfide glass ceramic, to mechanical milling, to thereby convert them to a sulfide glass or a sulfide glass ceramic; and a whole solid type cell using a sulfide glass or a sulfide glass ceramic capable of conducting a lithium ion produced by the method as a solid electrolyte. The method allows the production of a sulfide glass and a sulfide glass ceramic exhibiting high electrocoduvtivity at room temperature from raw materials being easily available and non-expensive through an easy and simple way.
Abstract:
A method of making chalcogenide glass which utilizes liquid encapsulation (34) to prevent the evaporation loss of low boiling point or high vapor pressure glass components (31, 32, 33) while the glass melt is being processed.
Abstract:
To overcome problems of fabricating conventional core-clad optical fibre from non-silica based (compound) glass, it is proposed to fabricate non-silica based (compound) glass optical fibre as holey fibre i.e. one contining Longitudinal holes in the cladding. This removes the conventional problems associated with mismatch of the physical properties of the core and clad compound glasses, since a holey fibre can be made of a single glass composition. With a holey fibre, it is not necessary to have different glasses for the core and cladding, since the necessary refractive index modulation between core and cladding is provided by the microstructure of the clad, i.e. its holes, rather than by a difference in materials properties between the clad and core glasses. Specifically, the conventional thermal mismatch problems between core and clad are circumvented. A variety of fibre types can be fabricated from non-silica based (compounds) glasses, for example: single-mode fibre; photonic band gap fibre; highly non-linear fibre; fibre with photosensitivity written gratings and other refractive index profile structures; and rare-earth doped fibres (e.g. Er, Nd, Pr) to provide gain media for fibre amplifiers and lasers.
Abstract:
A process for producing a preform for a chalcogenide glass fiber which comprises inserting a cladding tube having contained therein a chalcogenide glass rod for core into a quartz tube having at its bottom a nozzle having an aperture smaller than the outer diameter of the cladding tube, locally heating the bottom of the quartz tube and pulling the cladding tube having contained the glass rod for core and a process for producing a chalcogenide glass fiber by heating and drawing the preform thus obtained, by which processes the devitrification of glass and the generation of bubbles in the core glass or at the core glass-cladding glass interface can be prevented and the adhesion between the core glass and the cladding glass can be improved. In particular, when the glass material for core does not contain Ge, a chalcogenide glass fiber having such a core-cladding structure that the transmission loss of the glass fiber when infrared light pass through the fiber is small and the mechanical strength is high.
Abstract:
A method for manufacturing a glass preform from a metal sulfide chalcogenide glass to which a large amount of light emitting substances can be added includes steps of etching a surface made of the chalcogenide glass or oxychalcogenide glass of disc shape core and clad forming glass starting materials by an etchant including an acid and a compound reacting with a hydrogen chalcogenide, and forming the core forming glass starting material and the clad forming glass starting material into a united body serving as a glass preform. In a method for manufacturing a single-mode glass fiber using a preform method by drawing the glass preform whose outer round surface is made of a chalcogenide glass or oxychalcogenide glass, the outer round surface of the glass preform is etched using an etchant including an acid and a compound reacting with a hydrogen chalcogenide and then drawn into the glass fiber. In another method for manufacturing a glass fiber by drawing a rod-in-tube in which an outer round surface of the rod and inner and outer round surfaces of the tube are made of a chalcogenide glass or oxychalcogenide glass, the round surfaces made of the chalcogenide glass or oxychalcogenide glass are etched by the etchant including an acid and a compound reacting with a hydrogen chalcogenide and then drawn into the glass fiber.
Abstract:
A method for manufacturing a glass fiber includes a process of drawing a starting glass material partially or entirely made of chalcogenide glass or oxychalcogenide glass, such as preform rod, rod-in-tube, or jacketing tube, into a glass fiber in an atmosphere containing sulfur. The concentration of the sulfur in the atmosphere is set at sulfur's vapor pressure or greater around the glass surface at a maximum temperature of the glass fiber while the glass fiber is drawn, thereby fabricating the glass fiber without forming substantially any crystallization on the glass surface.
Abstract:
The disclosed method of making a mixed glass optical fiber exemplarily comprises providing a high-silica tube, and causing molten non-high silica glass to flow into the bore (12) of the tube by application of a pressure differential. In order to prevent cracking, the tube desirably has an outer diameter/inner diameter ratio of at least 5, preferably about 10 or even more, and an inner diameter of at most 1 mm. In a preferred embodiment, a conventional SiO 2 tube is partially collapsed to an inner diameter less than 1 mm, a quantity of a non-high-silica glass is placed in a neck of the partially collapsed tube and heated such that molten glass communicates with the reduced-diameter portion of the bore and can be drawn into the reduced-diameter portion by means of a vacuum. The resulting mixed glass body is then further stretched to result in a core rod of core diameter at most 0.3 mm. After overcladding the core rod with SiO 2 , fiber is drawn from the thus produced preform. A thus produced fiber with SiO 2 cladding and SiO 2 -Al 2 O 3 -La 2 O 3 -Er 2 O 3 core was used as an optical fiber amplifier and provided high gain.
Abstract:
The present invention provides for synthesizing high optical quality multicomponent chalcogenide glasses without refractive index perturbations due to striae, phase separation or crystal formation using a two-zone furnace and multiple fining steps. The top and bottom zones are initially heated to the same temperature, and then a temperature gradient is created between the top zone and the bottom zone. The fining and cooling phase is divided into multiple steps with multiple temperature holds.