Abstract:
Highly mixed compositions of powdered chemical compounds in predetermined quantities are prepared by causing reactant sublimation or evaporation in suitable crucibles and by conveying the vapours obtained into a cooled vessel, wherein they pass to solid state under powder form. Sublimation or evaporation are facilitated by high temperature and low pressure obtained in the apparatus. Heating of the individual crucibles is obtained by use of a high-frequency furnace and is controlled by ferromagnetic or electromagnetic devices.
Abstract:
Disclosed is a method of forming a glass preform from core and cladding glasses having low liquidus viscosities and narrow working ranges. A tube of liquid core glass is vertically situated in a vessel of liquid cladding glass. The tube extends to the bottom of the vessel where there is a stopper for preventing leakage of core glass. While both core and cladding glasses are at a temperature just above the liquidus temperature, the vessel is lowered into a coolant bath, thereby causing core glass to flow into the region vacated by the tube. The rate of withdrawing the tube from the vessel is sufficiently slow to provide laminar flow and yet fast enough to permit the resultant liquid core/clad composite to freeze before mixing occurs.
Abstract:
Procédé de dépôt en phase vapeur d'un verre fluoré sur un substrat, ledit verre fluoré ayant la composition suivante (en mole %; total 100%): 30-50 PbF2, 30-50 GaF3, 0-30 ZnF2, 1-5 MF2 (M = Mn, Cd), 1-5 InF3, 0-10 AlF3, 0-10 d'adjuvant, caractérisé par le fait que l'on met en contact ledit substrat avec les vapeurs provenant d'un bain fondu de fluorures métalliques comprenant un bain d'accueil ayant la composition suivante (en mole %; total 100%): 9-26 YF3, 19-28 BaF2, 35-40 InF3, 18-25 M'F2 (M' = Mn, Cd, Zn), 0-10 d'adjuvant et comprenant en outre, dans les proportions relatives indiquées ci-dessus, les autres ingrédients du verre fluoré à déposer; et composition vitreuse, déposée sur un substrat, ainsi obtenue, utilisable notamment comme guide d'onde dans l'infrarouge.
Abstract:
In a method of manufacturing a preform for a nonoxide glass fiber, cladding and core glass materials are placed in a cylinder of an extrusion apparatus such that ground end faces of the respective cladding and core glass materials are in contact with each other and such that the cladding glass material is located adjacent a molding section of the extrusion apparatus. The cladding and core glass materials are heated within inert-gas atmosphere, to their respective temperatures equal to or below their respective sag points and equal to or above their respective crystallization start temperatures. An extrusion punch of the extrusion apparatus is pushed within the atmosphere, to extrude the cladding and core glass materials through a molding nozzle in the molding section while the cladding and core glass materials are in fusible contact with each other, thereby forming the preform of a core and cladding structure. The preform is gradually cooled within a liner connected to the molding section within the atmosphere. Alternatively, an over-cladding glass material may be placed in the cylinder such that the over-cladding material is located adjacent the molding section, and the cladding glass material is located between the over-cladding and core glass materials.
Abstract:
A new method for fabricating devices which include multicomponent metal halide glasses, e.g., multicomponent metal halide glass optical fibers, is disclosed. In accordance with the inventive method, a multicomponent metal halide glass body, essentially free of crystallites, is produced by cooling essentially every portion of a melt incorporated into the glass body at a quench rate which is necessarily greater than or equal to about 10 Kelvins per second (K/sec). This necessary quench rate is achieved by successively quenching relatively small portions of the melt, e.g., thin layers or droplets of melt material, having relatively small cross-sectional dimensions.
Abstract:
A method and apparatus for manufacturing a preform for a fluoride glass fiber. Cooling means (13) and a liquid reservoir (14) are provided in association with a cylindrical vessel (1) open at both ends, and a crucible open (3) at both ends is disposed in the cylindrical vessel. Glass for clad and for core (2,4) are loaded into the cylindrical vessel and the crucible, respectively, with their lower open ends plugged, and are made molten. The clad glass melt is then cooled and when the outer portion of the clad glass melt has solidified with its inner portion still molten; the plugged lower open ends of the cylindrical vessel and the crucible are opened to let the inner portion of the clad glass melt run out into the liquid reservoir, and to introduce the core glass melt into the void from which the clad glass melt has run out. The glass is then cooled and solidified in its entirety, thereby forming a core-clad layer structure.
Abstract:
Provided is a process for preparing a homogenous fluoride glass containing high purity BaF₂ through the CVD process characterized in that the used gaseous mixture comprising: a barium β-diketonate complex serving as a first starting material and represented by the following general formula (1) of: wherein R is an alkyl group having 1 to 7 carbon atoms, R′ is a substituted alkyl group having fluorine atoms substituting hydrogen atoms and represented by C n F 2n+1 where n is an integer of from 1 to 3; and a gaseous or vaporizable compound of the matallic element constituting said fluoride glass, the gaseous or vaporizable compound serving as a second starting material; and a fluorine-containing gas serving as fluorinating agent. Further provided is a process for preparing a preform for a fluoride optical fiber which is low in trasmission loss, by depositing the fluoride glass over the interior wall of a cylindrical tube or the wall of rod-like glass substrate through the CVD process followed by collapsing.
Abstract:
The process employs solid-state halides heated at high temperature, under pressure conditions necessary to their vaporization, and obtains their condensation to solid state on the internal surface of a glass tube, which, after collapsing, forms the preform.
Abstract:
Halide fibres are protected by coatings up to 2µm thick of chalcogenide glasses, eg glasses based on compounds of S, Se or Te with Ge or As. The coatings are deposited on the fibre preform by ion deposition sputtering. Preferably the preform is etched by directing a stream of inert ions at it. Most suitably the etching immediately precedes the coating.