Abstract:
An apparatus for producing the glass soot used in the formation of optical fiber includes a burner with an internal atomizer. The atomizer includes an outer tube having a nozzle at an end thereof, and an inner tube located within the outer tube and having a closed end restricting fluid flow therethrough and defining a cylindrical sidewall having radially extending apertures spaced there along. The outer tube receives the glass-forming mixture in liquid form and the inner tube receives an atomizing gas which flows through the apertures in the sidewall of the inner tube and atomizes the glass-forming mixture as the glass-forming mixture travels through the outer tube.
Abstract:
A multicomponent particulate gel includes 80-100 mole % SiO2, 1-10 mole % X2O, 1-10 mole % YO, 1-15 mole % Al2O3, and 0.1-5.0 weight % Er2O3,where X represents lithium, sodium, potassium, or mixtures thereof and Y represents calcium, barium, magnesium, lead or mixtures thereof, and the ratio of Al2O3 to (X2OnullYO) is between about 0.9 and about 2.5. A process of manufacturing the gel includes hydrolyzing alkoxide derivatives of silicon, aluminum, erbium, lithium, sodium, potassium, calcium, barium, magnesium, lead or mixtures thereof in water to generate their respective hydroxide derivatives; polymerizing the hydroxide derivatives to produce a gel slurry comprising an essentially silica network; and drying the gel slurry to produce the gel.
Abstract translation:多组分颗粒凝胶包含80-100摩尔%的SiO 2,1-10摩尔%的X 2 O,1-10摩尔%的YO,1-15摩尔%的Al 2 O 3和0.1-5.0重量的Er 2 O 3,其中X代表锂,钠,钾, 或其混合物,Y表示钙,钡,镁,铅或其混合物,Al 2 O 3与(X 2 O + YO)的比例在约0.9至约2.5之间。 制造凝胶的方法包括在水中水解硅,铝,铒,锂,钠,钾,钙,钡,镁,铅或其混合物的醇盐衍生物以产生它们各自的氢氧化物衍生物; 聚合氢氧化物衍生物以产生包含基本上二氧化硅网络的凝胶淤浆; 并干燥凝胶浆以产生凝胶。
Abstract:
An optical fiber preform includes a core made from a fluoride glass which is doped with a rare earth, and a cladding surrounding the core. The cladding is made from one of an oxide glass and a fluoroxide glass. The core has a characteristic of amplification at 1.3 .mu.m-band. The cladding does not have absorption at 1.3 .mu.m-band. The preform is useful as a material for a fiber optical amplifier in optical communication systems.
Abstract:
This invention relates to the production of high purity fused silica glass through oxidation and/or flame hydrolysis of a halide-free, organosilicon-R compound in vapor form having the following properties:(a) producing a gas stream of a halide-free silicon-containing compound in vapor form capable of being converted through thermal decomposition with oxidation or flame hydrolysis to SiO.sub.2 ;(b) passing said gas stream into the flame of a combustion burner to form amorphous particles of fused SiO.sub.2 ;(c) depositing said amorphous particles onto a support; and(d) either essentially simultaneously with said deposition or subsequently thereto consolidating said deposit of amorphous particles into a virtually nonporous body; the improvement comprising utilizing a halide-free, organosilicon-R compound in vapor form having the following properties:(1) a Si--R bond dissociation energy that is no higher than the dissociation energy of the Si--O bond;(2) a boiling point no higher than 350.degree. C.; and(3) which, upon pyrolysis and/or hydrolysis, will produce decomposition products beside SiO.sub.2 which are deemed to be environmentally safe or the emissions are below acceptable governmental standards.
Abstract:
A method for fabricating optical fibers having a rare-earth doped core and a fused silica cladding includes inserting a rare-earth doped soft glass rod into a fused silica tube, the ratio of the outer diameter (OD) to the inner diameter (ID) of the fused silica tube being at least 2 and as large as 50; heating the rod and tube combination in a furnace to selectively volatilize volatile constituents of the soft glass rod which are responsible for the low softening point so that the final composition of the core consists predominantly of SiO.sub.2 and the desired dopants such as rare earths, alkaline earths or other low vapor pressure materials; and drawing the perform into an optical fiber.
Abstract:
A vapor phase method for the synthesis of MgO--Al.sub.2 O.sub.3 --SiO.sub.2 products, including MgO--Al.sub.2 O.sub.3 --SiO.sub.2 glasses of optical quality, wherein SiCl.sub.4, aluminum halide, and organometallic magnesium vapors are oxidized by flame oxidation and the oxides collected and sintered to glass or ceramic products, is described. A added shield gas stream is provided during flame oxidation of the vapors to reduce or prevent MgCl.sub.2 by-product formation at the burner and in the product.
Abstract translation:用于合成MgO-Al 2 O 3 -SiO 2产物的气相方法,包括光学质量的MgO-Al 2 O 3 -SiO 2玻璃,其中SiCl 4,卤化铝和有机金属镁蒸气通过火焰氧化被氧化,并将氧化物收集并烧结成玻璃或 描述了陶瓷制品。 在蒸气的火焰氧化期间提供添加的保护气流,以减少或防止燃烧器和产品中的MgCl 2副产物形成。
Abstract:
A method is provided for making an optical fiber by melting and cladding a multi-component core glass without adding the contamination that is normally associated with these processes. As an initial step, a pure multi-component glass is melted in a high purity silica crucible. The temperature of the glass in the crucible and the temperature of the orifice thereof are controlled so that a cane of glass is drawn from the bottom of the crucible. This cane of glass is fed into a silica or borosilicate tube which is being drawn into a fiber. This results in an optical fiber in which the multi-component glass forms the core while the tube forms the cladding.
Abstract:
There is disclosed a method and apparatus for providing optically pure water-free fused silica blanks, tubing and crucibles for use in forming optical waveguides, lenses, prisms, filters, and high temperature lamp envelopes, in which soot is deposited on a high purity graphite bait or refractory low expansion glass, glass-ceramic or suitable crystalline ceramic bait by a flame hydrolysis method in which the burner is located close to the bait. This results in an exceptionally dense soot preform. The preform is later sintered in an inert dry atmosphere by slowly inserting the soot covered bait into a furnace in such a manner that entrapped gas is forced from the fused silica during the slow insertion into the furnace maintained at a temperature above 1,400*C. The formation of bubbles within the fused silica is prevented because of the inert atmosphere and because the gases in the preform escape through the unsintered portions of the preform, thereby providing a crucible or blank of fused silica of exceptionally high optical quality.
Abstract:
An optical fiber containing alkali metal elements or the like in which Rayleigh scattering loss can be reduced is provided. An optical fiber includes a core composed of silica glass and a cladding which surrounds the core, has a refractive index lower than a refractive index of the core, and is composed of silica glass containing fluorine. The core contains a first group of dopants and a second group of dopants having a diffusion coefficient lower than a diffusion coefficient of the first group of dopants. The difference between the maximum value and the minimum value of residual stress in the optical fiber is 150 MPa or less.
Abstract:
The present disclosure illustrates a composition of a visible light and infrared light transmitting optical colored glass. The chalcogenide semiconductor compound Cu2ZnSnS4 or Cu2ZnSnSe4 is added in the silicate glass system composition, to adjust color and the optical property of the glass. The glass made of this composition has a characteristic of the visible light and infrared light transmitting in a wavelength of range 400 nm to 1200 nm.