Abstract:
An optical fiber containing an alkali metal and capable of reducing Rayleigh scattering loss is provided. An optical fiber has a core and a cladding made of silica glass and enclosing the core. The cladding contains fluorine and has a refractive index lower than the refractive index of the core. The core contains first group dopants selected from the group of Na element, K element, or a compound thereof at an average concentration of 0.2 ppm or more and 10 ppm or less. The core also contains second group dopants for reducing the viscosity of silica glass and having a diffusion coefficient of 1×10−12 cm2/s or more and smaller than the diffusion coefficient of the first group dopants, by an average concentration of 0.2 ppm or more at a temperature of 2000° C. to 2300° C.
Abstract:
Disclosed is an optical fiber having a core with an alkali metal oxide dopant in an peak amount greater than about 0.002 wt. % and less than about 0.1 wt. %. The alkali metal oxide concentration varies with a radius of the optical fiber. By appropriately selecting the concentration of alkali metal oxide dopant in the core and the cladding, a low loss optical fiber may be obtained. Also disclosed are several methods of making the optical fiber including the steps of forming an alkali metal oxide-doped rod, and adding additional glass to form a draw perform. Preferably, the draw preform has a final outer dimension (d2), wherein an outer dimension (d1) of the rod is less than or equal to 0.06 times the final outer dimension (d2). In a preferred embodiment, the alkali metal oxide-doped rod is inserted into the centerline hole of a preform to form an assembly.
Abstract:
An alkali-metal-doped core optical fiber having high hydrogen resistance and a method for manufacturing such an optical fiber are provided. A method for manufacturing a deuterium-treated optical fiber according to the present invention includes a preform-forming step of forming a silica glass optical fiber preform having a core doped with an alkali metal element, a drawing step of drawing the optical fiber preform to form an optical fiber, and an exposing step of exposing the optical fiber to a deuterium gas atmosphere. Alkali-metal-doped core optical fibers can be manufactured by using this method. In the exposing step, the optical fiber is exposed to an atmosphere containing deuterium gas at a temperature of 20° C. or more under conditions where (deuterium gas partial pressure)×(exposure time) is 50 kPa·hour or more.
Abstract:
Laminated articles and layered articles, for example, low alkali glass laminated articles and layered articles useful for, for example, electrochromic devices are described.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a silica glass compound having improved physical and chemical properties. In one embodiment, the present invention relates to a silica glass having a desirable brittleness in combination with a desirable density while still yielding a glass composition having a desired hardness and desired strength relative to other glasses. In another embodiment, the present invention relates to a silica glass composition that contains at least about 85 mole percent silicon dioxide and up to about 15 mole percent of one or more dopants selected from F, B, N, Al, Ge, one or more alkali metals (e.g., Li, Na, K, etc.), one or more alkaline earth metals (e.g., Mg, Ca, Sr, Ba, etc.), one or more transition metals (e.g., Ti, Zn, Y, Zr, Hf, etc.), one or more lanthanides (e.g., Ce, etc.), or combinations of any two or more thereof.
Abstract:
An ideal quartz glass for a wafer jig for use in an environment having an etching effect is distinguished by both high purity and high resistance to dry etching. To indicate a quartz glass that substantially fulfills these requirements, it is suggested according to the invention that the quartz glass is doped with nitrogen at least in a near-surface area, has a mean content of metastable hydroxyl groups of less than 30 wt ppm and that its fictive temperature is below 1250° C. and its viscosity is at least 1013 dPa·s at a temperature of 1200° C. An economic method for producing such a quartz glass comprises the following method steps: melting an SiO2 raw material to obtain a quartz glass blank, the SiO2 raw material or the quartz glass blank being subjected to a dehydration measure, heating the SiO2 raw material or the quartz glass blank to a nitriding temperature in the range between 1050° C. and 1850° C. in an ammonia-containing atmosphere, a temperature treatment by means of which the quartz glass of the quartz glass blank is set to a fictive temperature of 1250° C. or less, and a surface treatment of the quartz glass blank with formation of the quartz glass jig.
Abstract:
A discharge lamp is disclosed comprising an enclosed discharge vessel for the generation of an electrical discharge and a casing made of glass which surrounds the discharge vessel. In order to achieve as constant properties as possible over the service life of the lamp, it is proposed that the glass material of the casing be doped with sodium in a concentration of at least 10 ppm, and preferably at least 30 ppm. According to a further embodiment, it is proposed that other alkali metals (except for sodium) be contained in a maximum concentration of 25 ppm. Surprisingly, by the appropriate choice of the outer bulb, not in direct contact with the actual discharge, the diffusion of sodium from the discharge vessel is reduced. In addition to this, the material of the outer bulb has a reduced inclination to crystallization.
Abstract:
A photosensitive glass made of a ternary compound SiO2:SnO2:R2O where R is a Group I element such as Na, K or Li. The addition of an oxide of a Group I element increases the solubility of tin oxide in a silica matrix and produces a glass which is highly photosensitive and in which optically written refractive index modulations have remarkable temperature stability (solid circles) at least as good as that of the binary glass SiO2:SnO2 (open circles) and much superior to that of conventional germanosilicate glass (solid triangles) or borogermanosilicate glass (open triangles). The inclusion of the Group I oxide effectively increases the solubility of tin oxide in the non-crystalline silica matrix well above the 1% limit of SiO2:SnO2 photosensitive glass, at which Sn would normally crystallize in the oxide. By contrast to boron or phosphorous co-dopants, the introduction of the Group I element does not appear to cause any increase in the background refractive index, allowing the manufacture of waveguide devices compatible with standard telecommunication fibers.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a glass excellent in infrared absorption capability and corrosion resistance, and its fabrication process. A compound of divalent copper and a compound of a metal species for a network modifier oxide are introduced in a wet gel. Then, the wet gel is dipped in a dipping solution having a low solubility with respect to the compound of divalent copper and the compound of a metal species for a network modifier oxide for the precipitation in the wet gel of the divalent-t copper compound and the compound of a metal species for a network modifier oxide, followed by drying and firing. Thus, an infrared absorbing glass comprising 70 to 98 mol % of SiO2, 1 to 12 mol % of CuO and 1 to 18 mol % of a network modifier oxide other than CuO is fabricated.
Abstract:
A chemically durable porous glass of which the skeleton mainly comprises SiO.sub.2 -ZrO.sub.2 system glass having a ZrO.sub.2 content of 2 or more wt %, and a process for the production of such glass.