Low-temperature fabrication of glass optical components
    22.
    发明申请
    Low-temperature fabrication of glass optical components 有权
    玻璃光学元件的低温制造

    公开(公告)号:US20040079114A1

    公开(公告)日:2004-04-29

    申请号:US10283402

    申请日:2002-10-29

    Abstract: In one aspect, a method is provided for molding from glass complex optical components such as lenses, microlens, arrays of microlenses, and gratings or surface-relief diffusers having fine or hyperfine microstructures suitable for optical or electro-optical applications. In another aspect, mold masters or patterns, which define the profile of the optical components, made on metal alloys, particularly titanium or nickel alloys, or refractory compositions, with or without a non-reactive coating are provided. Given that molding optical components from oxide glasses has numerous drawbacks, it has been discovered in accordance with the invention that non-oxide glasses substantially eliminates these drawbacks. The non-oxide glasses, such as chalcogenide, chalcohalide, and halide glasses, may be used in the mold either in bulk, planar, or power forms. In the mold, the glass is heated to about 10-110null C., preferably about 50null C., above its transition temperature (Tg), at which temperature the glass has a viscosity that permits it to flow and conform exactly to the pattern of the mold.

    Abstract translation: 在一个方面,提供了一种用于从诸如透镜,微透镜,微透镜阵列的玻璃复合光学部件以及具有适合于光学或电光学应用的精细或超细微结构的光栅或表面浮雕扩散器成型的方法。 在另一方面,提供了限定在具有或不具有非反应性涂层的金属合金,特别是钛或镍合金或耐火材料组合物上制成的光学部件的轮廓的模具主体或图案。 鉴于来自氧化物玻璃的成型光学部件具有许多缺点,根据本发明已经发现,非氧化物玻璃基本上消除了这些缺点。 非氧化物玻璃,例如硫族化物,卤化铝和卤化物玻璃可以以体积,平面或电力形式用于模具中。 在模具中,将玻璃加热至约10-110℃,优选约50℃,高于其转变温度(Tg),在该温度下,玻璃具有允许其流动并准确地符合 模具图案。

    Method for molding chalcogenide glass lenses
    23.
    发明授权
    Method for molding chalcogenide glass lenses 失效
    硫属化物玻璃透镜成型方法

    公开(公告)号:US06668588B1

    公开(公告)日:2003-12-30

    申请号:US10162561

    申请日:2002-06-06

    Abstract: A method for molding a chalcogenide glass lens includes providing a mold. A preformed lens of chalcogenide glass is placed within the mold. The lens has a top surface and a bottom surface. An amount of chalcogenide glass is deposited within the mold and on the top surface of the preformed lens. The mold is heated, such that the chalcogenide glass on the top surface of the preformed lens softens, melts, and bonds to the top surface of the preformed lens. A lens surface is formed in the melted chalcogenide glass to form a molded lens which is bonded to the top surface of the preformed lens. The molded lens and preformed lens assembly is then removed from the mold.

    Abstract translation: 硫属化物玻璃透镜的成型方法包括提供模具。 硫化物玻璃的预制镜片放置在模具内。 透镜具有顶表面和底表面。 一定数量的硫族化物玻璃沉积在模具内和预成型透镜的顶表面上。 模具被加热,使得预成型镜片顶表面上的硫族化物玻璃软化,熔化并粘合到预成型镜片的顶表面上。 在熔化的硫族化物玻璃中形成透镜表面,以形成结合到预成型透镜顶表面的模制透镜。 然后将模制的透镜和预成型的透镜组件从模具中取出。

    Multi heating zone apparatus and process for making core/clad glass fibers
    24.
    发明申请
    Multi heating zone apparatus and process for making core/clad glass fibers 有权
    多层加热区设备及制造核心/复合玻璃纤维的工艺

    公开(公告)号:US20030213267A1

    公开(公告)日:2003-11-20

    申请号:US10339255

    申请日:2003-01-06

    CPC classification number: C03B37/023 C03B2201/86 C03C3/321 C03C13/043

    Abstract: This invention pertains to apparatus and process for making core/clad glass fibers. The apparatus includes a central tube or receptacle connected at the top to a pressure controller and terminating in a reduced section; a side tube or receptacle positioned at about the level of the upper portion of the central tube; an outer tube or receptacle disposed around the bottom portion of the central tube terminating in a smaller section which is concentric with and spaced directly below the section of the central tube; a side arm connecting the side tube and the outer tube; and furnaces around the side, outer, and the reduced sections of the central arid the outer tubes. The process includes the steps of disposing a solid core glass rod at a point removed from hot temperature that can cause crystallization in the core glass rod, disposing a solid clad glass rod at a point removed from the core glass rod, softening to the flowing condition the solid clad glass rod, transferring the softened clad glass to a lower point, the softened clad glass having a central void therethrough, heating the softened clad glass above its crystallization temperature, cooling the softened clad glass to a draw temperature, transferring the solid core glass rod into the central void in the softened clad glass, softening to the flowing condition the solid core glass rod with the heat from the softened and cooled clad glass, and drawing the core/clad glass fiber by allowing the clad and core glasses to flow in the form of a fiber.

    Abstract translation: 本发明涉及制造芯/复合玻璃纤维的装置和方法。 该设备包括中央管或插座,其在顶部连接到压力控制器并终止于减小的部分; 位于中心管的上部的高度的侧管或容器; 设置在中心管的底部周围的外管或容器,其终止于与中心管的截面同心并间隔开的较小部分; 连接侧管和外管的侧臂; 并围绕中心的侧面,外部和缩小部分以及外部管道进行熔炉。 该方法包括以下步骤:将固体芯玻璃棒放置在可以在芯玻璃棒中引起结晶的热温度的点处,将固体包覆玻璃棒设置在从芯玻璃棒上移除的点上,软化成流动条件 固体包覆玻璃棒,将软化的包覆玻璃转移到较低点,软化的复合玻璃具有中空空隙,将软化的包覆玻璃加热到其结晶温度以上,将软化的包覆玻璃冷却至拉伸温度,将固体核 将玻璃棒插入软化的包层玻璃中的中心空隙中,使来自软化和冷却的包覆玻璃的热量将固体芯玻璃棒软化成流动状态,并且通过使包层和芯玻璃流动 以纤维的形式。

    IR lens from moldable infrared material
    26.
    发明申请
    IR lens from moldable infrared material 审中-公开
    红外线镜头由可模制红外线材料制成

    公开(公告)号:US20030007203A1

    公开(公告)日:2003-01-09

    申请号:US09832833

    申请日:2001-04-12

    Abstract: An infrared lens is made from a moldable IR transmissive material and has an optically significant surface with a surface relief holographic grating. The moldable IR transmissive material is an arsenic selenide glass. The lens and the optically significant surface are manufactured as a unitary structure in a molding operation.

    Abstract translation: 红外透镜由可模制的IR透射材料制成,并具有具有表面起伏全息光栅的光学显着表面。 可模制的IR透射材料是砷化硒玻璃。 透镜和光学显着表面在模制操作中被制造为整体结构。

    Method for producing core/clad glass optical fiber preforms using hot
isostatic pressing
    27.
    发明授权
    Method for producing core/clad glass optical fiber preforms using hot isostatic pressing 失效
    使用热等静压法生产芯/包层玻璃光纤预制棒的方法

    公开(公告)号:US5735927A

    公开(公告)日:1998-04-07

    申请号:US672771

    申请日:1996-06-28

    CPC classification number: C03B37/01248 C03B37/01211 C03B2201/86

    Abstract: Core/clad glass optical fiber preforms free of bubbles and soot at the coclad interface are fabricated by inserting a glass core rod into a cladding glass tube sized so that space remains between them, sealing the top and bottom of the tube onto the core rod to form a sealed space between them which is relatively soot free and under a vacuum and then hot isostatically pressing the sealed composite to collapse the tube onto the rod and also collapse bubbles in the glass. Soot formation is avoided or minimized by purging the space with inert gas while the bottom of the tube is collapsed onto the rod and by sealing the top under a dynamic vacuum and at the lowest possible temperature to avoid soot formation without cracking the glass. The space is vacuum outgassed before the second seal is made. Chalcogenide fiber drawn from a preform made in this fashion exhibits very low transmission losses.

    Abstract translation: 通过将玻璃芯棒插入包层玻璃管中,使其间留有空间,将管的顶部和底部密封在芯上,制成芯/包层界面处的无气泡和烟灰的芯/包层玻璃光纤预制件 杆,以在它们之间形成密封空间,其相对不含烟灰并在真空下,然后热等静压所述密封复合材料以将管塌陷到所述杆上并且还使所述玻璃中的气泡折叠。 通过用惰性气体吹扫空间来避免或最小化烟灰,同时管的底部塌陷到杆上,并且通过在动态真空和最低可能温度下密封顶部以避免烟灰形成而不破裂玻璃。 在制造第二次密封之前,空间被真空排气。 以这种方式制造的预成型体制成的硫族化物纤维表现出非常低的传输损耗。

    Quasi-containerless glass formation method and apparatus
    29.
    发明授权
    Quasi-containerless glass formation method and apparatus 失效
    准无容器玻璃的形成方法和装置

    公开(公告)号:US4654065A

    公开(公告)日:1987-03-31

    申请号:US805012

    申请日:1985-12-05

    Abstract: Apparatus and method for forming ultrapure glass rods (13) or fibers (28) from a polycrystalline rod (11) in which the method comprises the steps of heating a selected short section of the rod in the first furnace (21) to form a molten zone of the rod, heating a second selected short section of the rod in a second furnace (19) which initially is separated from the first furnace by a very short gap to form a second molten zone of the rod which initially is contiguous with and part of the first molten zone of the rod to form a single molten zone 14, and then gradually moving the first and second furnaces apart to first form a rod (13) and then, ultimately, a fiber (28), of ultrapure glass in the increasingly widening gap forming therebetween.

    Abstract translation: 用于从多晶棒(11)形成超纯玻璃棒(13)或纤维(28)的装置和方法,其中所述方法包括在所述第一炉(21)中加热所述棒的选定短部分以形成熔融 所述杆的区域在第二炉(19)中加热所述杆的第二选定短段,所述第二炉(19)最初与所述第一炉隔开非常短的间隙,以形成所述杆的第二熔融区,所述第二熔融区最初与所述第二炉 的杆的第一熔融区域形成单个熔融区域14,然后逐渐移动第一和第二炉子,以首先形成杆(13),然后形成最终为纤维(28)的超纯玻璃纤维 间隙形成越来越宽。

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