Methods of incorporating materials of interest in glass optical waveguides
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    Methods of incorporating materials of interest in glass optical waveguides 有权
    格拉斯利奇维伦特里维尔·法恩

    公开(公告)号:EP2463251A1

    公开(公告)日:2012-06-13

    申请号:EP11009589.0

    申请日:2011-12-05

    IPC分类号: C03B37/012

    摘要: A method of incorporating within a glass optical waveguide an undissolved material of interest that is soluble in molten glass and exhibits a property of interest that would be neutralized were the material of interest dissolved includes combining pieces of a light-transmissive first glass with the material of interest. The combined first glass and material of interest are shaped within a container and heated to a temperature sufficiently high to cause the glass pieces and material of interest to mutually coalesce and form a light-transmissive core rod, but not high enough that the first glass melts and the material of interest dissolves therein. A cladding tube is heated and fused about the core rod to define a mono rod. An optical waveguide through which light propagates by internal reflection, and which incorporates the undissolved material of interest, is defined when the cladding tube comprises a glass that renders the cladding of lower refractive index than the core rod.

    摘要翻译: 在玻璃光波导内引入可溶于熔融玻璃并表现出将要被中和的感兴趣性质的未溶解材料的方法包括将透光的第一玻璃与第 利益。 组合的第一玻璃和感兴趣的材料在容器内成形,并加热到足够高的温度,以使玻璃片和感兴趣的材料相互结合并形成透光芯棒,但不足以使第一玻璃熔化 并且感兴趣的材料溶解在其中。 包壳管被加热并围绕芯棒熔合以限定单杆。 当包层管包括使包层比芯棒低的折射率的玻璃时,通过内部反射传播光纤并且包含感兴趣的未溶解材料的光波导被限定。