Abstract:
Methods for forming optical fiber preforms are disclosed. According to one embodiment, a method for forming an optical fiber preform includes forming a preform core portion from silica-based glass soot. The silica-based glass soot may include at least one dopant species for altering an index of refraction of the preform core portion. A selective diffusion layer of silica-based glass soot may be formed around the preform core portion to form a soot preform. The selective diffusion layer may have an as-formed density greater than the density of the preform core portion. A diffusing species may be diffused through the selective diffusion layer into the preform core portion. The soot preform may be sintered such that the selective diffusion layer has a barrier density which is greater than the as-formed density and the selective diffusion layer prevents diffusion of the at least one dopant species through the selective diffusion layer.
Abstract:
The present disclosure is directed to a doped silica-titania glass, DST glass, consisting essentially of 0.1 wt.% to 5 wt.% halogen, 50 ppm-wt. to 6 wt.% of one or more oxides of Al, Ta and Nb, 3 wt.% to 10 wt.% TiO 2 and the remainder SiO 2 . In an embodiment the halogen content can be in the range of 0.2 wt.% to 3 wt.% along with 50 ppm-wt. to 6 wt.% one or more oxides of Al, Ta and Nb, 3 wt.% to 10 wt.% TiO 2 and the remainder SiO 2 . In an embodiment the DST glass has an OH concentration of less than 100 ppm. In another embodiment the OH concentration is less than 50 ppm. The DST glass has a Active temperature T f of less than 875°C. In an embodiment T f is less than 825°C. In another embodiment T f is less than 775°C.
Abstract:
This disclosure is directed to a silica-titania-niobia glass and to a method for making the glass. The composition of the silica-titania-niobia (SiO 2 -TiO 2 -Nb 2 O 5 ) glass, determined as the oxides, is Nb 2 O 5 in an amount in the range of 0.005 wt.% to 1.2 wt.% TiO 2 , in an amount in the range of 5 wt.% to 10 wt.%, and the remainder of glass is SiO 2 . In the method, the STN glass precursor is consolidated into a glass by heating to a temperature of 1600°C to 1700°C in flowing helium for 6 hours to 10 hours. When this temperature is reached, the helium flow can be replaced by argon for the remainder of the time. Subsequently the glass is cooled to approximately 1050°C, and then from 1050°C to 700°C followed by turning off the furnace and cooling the glass to room temperature at the natural cooling rate of the furnace.
Abstract:
To provide an optical component of quartz glass for use in a projection objective for immersion lithography at an operating wavelength below 250 nm, which component is optimized for use with linearly polarized UV laser radiation and particularly with respect to compaction and birefringence induced by anisotropic density change, it is suggested according to the invention that the quartz glass should contain hydroxyl groups in the range of from 1 wtppm to 60 wtppm and chemically bound nitrogen, and that the mean hydrogen content of the quartz glass should be in the range of 5 x 10 15 molecules/cm 3 to 1 x 10 17 molecules/cm 3 .
Abstract translation:为了提供石英玻璃的光学部件,用于在250nm以下的工作波长下用于浸没式光刻的投影物镜,该成分被优化用于线偏振UV激光辐射,特别是关于由各向异性密度变化引起的压实和双折射 根据本发明,建议石英玻璃应含有1wt%至60wtppm的羟基和化学键合的氮,并且石英玻璃的平均氢含量应在5×10 分子/ cm 3至1×10 17分子/ cm 3以上。
Abstract:
A microstructured optical fiber (30) is described. The microstructured optical fiber (30) comprises an inner region (32) and an outer region (34). The inner region (32) includes an inner material (36) and a plurality of holes formed in the inner material (36). The outer region (34) surrounds the inner region (32), and includes an outer material (42). The softening point temperature of the inner material (36) is greater than the softening point temperature of the outer material (42) by at least about 50 °C. Microstructured optical fiber preforms and methods for making the microstructured optical fibers are also described. The microstructured optical fiber may be made to have substantially undistorted holes in the inner region.
Abstract:
A method for making a glass ceramic, optoelectronic material such as a clad optical fiber or other component for use in an optoelectronic device. The method comprises preparing a glass composition batch to yield a precursor glass for a nanocrystalline glass-ceramic that is doped with at least one kind of optically active ion, such as a transition metal or lanthanide element; melting the batch; forming a glass cane; surrounding the cane with a chemically inert cladding material shaped in the form of a tube; drawing a glass fiber from the combined precursor-glass "cane-in-tube" at a temperature slightly above the liquidus of the precursor glass composition, and heat treating at least a portion of the drawn clad glass fiber under conditions to develop nanocrystals within the core composition and thereby forming a glass ceramic.
Abstract:
Method for manufacturing optical fiber comprises the steps of laying down core and cladding materials to form a soot blank, the soot blank including a glass modifier, loading the unconsolidated soot blank into a draw tower, providing a hot zone to heat a portion of the blank to a temperature sufficient to sinter the soot into molten glass, and directly drawing the molten glass into either a consolidated, drawn preform rod (cane) or into an optical fiber.
Abstract:
The present invention is directed to methods of producing soot used in the manufacture of optical waveguides. Both non-aqueous liquid reactants and aqueous solutions containing one or more salts are delivered through an atomizing burner assembly to form a homogenous soot stream containing the oxides of the selected elements contained within the non-aqueous liquid reactant and the aqueous solution. The resulting multi-component soot is collected by conventional methods to form preforms used in the manufacture of optical waveguide fibers. Alternatively, an aqueous solution may be atomized with a gas at a first burner assembly to form an aerosol and a reactant vaporized for delivery to a second burner assembly. Preforms produced by the methods are also disclosed. The aqueous solution is preferably one comprising a metal salt, e.g. acetate, nitrate, sulfate, carbonate, chloride, hydroxide. The metal of the metal salt is preferably an alkali metal, an alkaline earth metal, lead, lanthanum, cobalt, antimony, erbium, aluminum, neodymium, praeseodymium.
Abstract:
Provided is lithium disilicate crystalline glass containing cristobalite crystal phase for high strength and aesthetic traits and its manufacturing process thereof. Exemplary embodiments of the present invention provide the high strength and aesthetic lithium disilicate crystalline glass, one kind of dental restoration materials, and its manufacturing method which induces the growth of the different crystal phase, cristobalite, from glass with lithium disilicate crystal.