Abstract:
Heavy metal fluoride glass optical fiber with or without a cladding and coated with an outer layer of an oxide glass having a glass transition temperature of less than 300 DEG C and a thermal expansion coefficient of between 15 and 19 x 10 DEG C . Also, a method of making and providing such coatings on fluoride glass, and fiber optic products prepared by such methods.
Abstract:
In a method for producing a fluorophosphate optical glass comprising melting a glass raw material to give a molten glass, and refining, homogenizing and then quickly quenching the molten glass to produce the fluorophosphate optical glass, even if the glass is flown from a refining tank that is set to a high temperature to an operation tank that is set to a low temperature, bubbles are not generated in the glass.The content of Fe in terms of Fe2O3 and the content of Cu in terms of CuO is controlled so that the total of the contents of Fe and Cu is 20 ppm or more, and the obtained fluorophosphate optical glass has such transmittance property that the internal transmittance in terms of a thickness of 10 mm becomes 98% or more at a wavelength region of at least from 400 to 500 nm.
Abstract translation:在制造含氟磷酸盐光学玻璃的方法中,包括熔化玻璃原料以得到熔融玻璃,并且精炼,均化,然后快速淬火熔融玻璃以制备氟磷酸盐光学玻璃,即使玻璃从精炼罐中流出, 被设定为设定为低温的操作罐的高温,玻璃中不产生气泡。 控制以Fe 2 O 3计的Fe含量和以CuO计的Cu含量,使得Fe和Cu的含量的总和为20ppm以上,并且所得氟磷酸盐光学玻璃具有透射性,使得内部透射率 在厚度为10mm的情况下,在至少400〜500nm的波长区域为98%以上。
Abstract:
A method and apparatus for making a substantially void-free preform for a microstructured optical fiber using a one-step process is provided. A preform is prepared from specialty glasses using a direct extrusion method. A die for use with the direct extrusion method is also provided, and a method for drawing the preform into a HC-PBG fiber for use in transmitting infra-red wavelength light is also provided. The preform comprises an outer jacket made of solid glass, a cladding having a plurality of air holes arranged in a desired pattern within the jacket, and a core which is hollow.
Abstract:
Disclosed is an amplifying optical fiber having a central core and an optical cladding surrounding the central core. The central core is based on a silica matrix that includes nanoparticles, which are composed of a matrix material that includes doping ions of at least one rare earth element. The amplifying optical fiber can be employed, for example, in an optical amplifier and an optical laser.
Abstract:
Phosphate optical glass having an Abbé number, νd, of greater than 59. A preform for precision press molding being comprised of the phosphate optical glass. An optical glass being comprised of the phosphate optical glass and manufacturing method of the same. Provided are low-dispersion phosphate optical glass having a low-temperature softening property and good weatherability, suited to precision press molding, and further having good devitrification stability, a preform for precision press molding comprised of the above glass and a method of manufacturing of the same, a glass optical element having the above optical characteristics as well as good weatherability and a method of manufacturing the same.
Abstract:
High optical quality glass windows, particularly of low melting and low viscosity glasses and substantially free of defects, particularly adapted for high energy laser applications, are made by stirring the molten glass during cooling without the use of a mechanical stirrer within the glass, by rotating the mold or crucible in which the glass is cooling, using a motion which is not entirely a circular and rotary motion.
Abstract:
A photonic band gap fiber and method of making thereof is provided. The fiber is made of a non-silica-based glass and has a longitudinal central opening, a microstructured region having a plurality of longitudinal surrounding openings, and a jacket. The air fill fraction of the microstructured region is at least about 40%. The fiber may be made by drawing a preform into a fiber, while applying gas pressure to the microstructured region. The air fill fraction of the microstructured region is changed during the drawing.
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:
The disclosure is directed to an all glass method that frustrates the internal reflection on the outside diameter of an optical fiber's glass cladding thus allowing the light to be directed to a light absorbing material/ medium and allowing the desired light in the core of the fiber to be preserved with no loss. The frustration is achieved by having at least one glass frustrater in glass-to-glass contact with the outermost cladding layer of the optical fiber. The glass frustrater is made of a glass that has a glass transition point lower that both the core and cladding glasses of the fiber. Chalcogenide and phosphate glasses are among the glasses suitable for this application.
Abstract:
To provide a wavelength conversion member having good surface accuracy and dimensional accuracy even when processed in various shapes, and a method for manufacturing the same. A method for manufacturing a wavelength conversion member, including the steps of: subjecting a preform made of a powder mixture containing a glass powder and an inorganic phosphor powder to heat treatment, thereby obtaining a sintered powder product; and re-press molding the sintered powder product with a die.