Abstract:
A glass body containing a dissolved vaporizable component is heated under conditions whereby some of this component can vaporize off from the surface of the glass body to cause the concentration of the residual component dissolved in the glass body to vary with a continuous gradient toward the surface from the axis along which light is to advance through the glass body, whereby a light-conducting glass structure is produced wherein the refractive index thereof varies with a continuous gradient in directions transverse to the above mentioned axis.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a method for producing a doped SiO 2 slurry in which an SiO2 suspension is brought into interaction with at least one doping solution, wherein the SiO2 suspension and/or the doping solution act on one another in the form of an atomised spray, the average droplet diameter of which is in the range between 10 μm and 100 μm. The invention further relates to the use of an SiO2 slurry doped by the atomised spray method for the production of doped quartz glass, particularly for the production of laser-active quartz glass.
Abstract:
A silica soot preform (12) is inserted into a furnace (30). The preform is then treated with heat and carbon monoxide gas (32) so as to reduce impurities that could effect the final product.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a method and a device for spraying of a material, wherein at least two different components are introduced into a flame (9) formed by means of a fuel gas in such a way that the components react with each other, forming multicomponent glass particles. By means of the flame (9), the multicomponent glass particles are sprayed to a desired target. The first component is introduced to the flame as a gas or a vapour, and the second component is introduced into the flame in liquid form and is atomized by means of a gas substantially in the vicinity of the flame. The first and second components are supplied into the flame (9) with the same device as the fuel gas. The liquid component and the gaseous component are formed into particles having the size in the order of magnitude of a nanometre and their mutual reaction is effected in such a way that homogeneous multicomponent glass particles are formed.
Abstract:
An active single mode optical fiber has the core made of a rare earth doped non-oxide glass and the cladding made of an oxide glass. The glass of the core has a melting temperature lower than that of the glass of the cladding and lying within the range of the softening temperatures of the latter. In a preferred embodiment the core is made of a chalcogenide glass and the cladding is made of a lead silicate glass. To produce the fibre, a preform, obtained by introducing an element made of the non-oxide glass into the hole (2) of a capillary tube (1) made of the oxide glass, is brought to a temperature lying within the range of softening temperatures of the oxide glass and not lower than the melting temperature of the non-oxide glass, and is drawn. The capillary tube (1), during the drawing process, serves as a container for the molten glass of the core.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a method for spraying of a material, wherein at least two different components are introduced into a flame (9) formed by means of fuel gas in such a way that the components react with each other, forming multicomponent glass particles. By means of the flame (9), the multicomponent glass particles are sprayed to a desired target. The first component is introduced to the flame as a gas or a vapour, and the second component is introduced into the flame in liquid form and is atomized by means of gas substantially in the vicinity of the flame. The first and second components are supplied into the flame (9) with the same device as the fuel gas. The liquid component and the gaseous component are formed into particles having the size in the order of magnitude of a nanometre and their mutual reaction is effected in such a way that homogeneous multicomponent glass particles are formed.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a method for spraying of a material, wherein at least two different components are introduced into a flame (9) formed by means of fuel gas in such a way that the components react with each other, forming multicomponent glass particles. By means of the flame (9), the multicomponent glass particles are sprayed to a desired target. The first component is introduced to the flame as a gas or a vapour, and the second component is introduced into the flame in liquid form and is atomized by means of gas substantially in the vicinity of the flame. The first and second components are supplied into the flame (9) with the same device as the fuel gas. The liquid component and the gaseous component are formed into particles having the size in the order of magnitude of a nanometre and their mutual reaction is effected in such a way that homogeneous multicomponent glass particles are formed.
Abstract:
A silica soot preform (12) is inserted into a furnace (30). The preform is then treated with heat and carbon monoxide gas (32) so as to reduce impurities that could effect the final product.