Abstract:
In a known method for producing quartz glass that is doped with nitrogen, an SiO2 base product is prepared in the form of SiO2 grains or in the form of a porous semi-finished product produced from the SiO2 grains and the SiO2 base product is processed into the quartz glass with the nitrogen chemically bound therein in a hot process in an atmosphere containing a reaction gas containing nitrogen. From this starting point, a method is provided for achieving nitrogen doping in quartz glass with as high a fraction of chemically bound nitrogen as possible. This object is achieved according to the invention in that a nitrogen oxide is used as the nitrogen-containing reaction gas, and that a SiO2 base product is used that in the hot process has a concentration of oxygen deficient defects of at least 2×1015 cm−3, wherein the SiO2 base product comprises SiO2 particles having an average particle size in the range of 200 nm to 300 μm (D50 value).
Abstract:
Provided are a quartz crucible and a method of manufacturing the quartz crucible. The quartz crucible is used in a single crystal growth apparatus. The quartz crucible comprises an inner layer including silica, and an outer layer including silica disposed outside the inner layer to surround the inner layer, wherein nitrogen is added in the silica of the outer layer.
Abstract:
A device and method is disclosed for manufacturing optical fiber preforms utilizing microwave plasma assisted chemical vapor deposition. Precursor gas is introduced to the face of a vertically mounted dielectric rod, and a plasma is struck by means of simultaneous excitation of an E01 type wave and an H type wave with rotating linear polarization. The silica rod is positioned so that its face is at the bottom of the tube. Precursor gas is delivered from a position below the face of the silica rod, and microwave energy, which travels through the rod to the rod face, is delivered from a source positioned above the rod. With this configuration, a uniformly dense plasma localized on the face of the rod can simultaneously deposit both a pure or doped core and a doped cladding. It is also useful for creating waveguides, preform cores for use as substrates in creating optical fiber preforms, capillaries and ceramic rods.
Abstract:
A number of unique processes are disclosed for manufacture of sintered high-purity quartz glass products in which a shaped silica body or preform is made from an aqueous slurry of micronized silica particles by gel casting, slip casting or electrophoretic deposition. The silica particles may comprise a major portion by weight of crystalline silica. In one embodiment of the invention the sintered quartz glass is transparent, substantially bubble-free and suitable for scientific or optical uses. In another embodiment the porous silica preform is fired in steam to increase the hydroxyl content and then nitrided in a nitrogen-hydrogen reducing atmosphere. A minute amount of chemically-combined nitrogen in the high-purity quartz glass is sufficient to provide a tremendous improvement in physical properties and an incredible increase in the resistance to devitrification.
Abstract:
The high-purity, heat-resistant oxynitride glass can be produced by subjecting a fine silica powder block to a nitriding treatment by heating it while keeping it in contact with an ammonia-containing gas in a reducing environment, which is achieved by at least one of the following means: (a) embedding the fine silica powder block in carbon powder, (b) placing the fine silica powder block in a carbon pipe or container, and (c) introducing a reducing gas, and simultaneously or subsequently sintering it.
Abstract:
A process for producing a glass perform for optical transmission fibers, which includes supplying a gaseous silicon compound, ammonia or a gaseous nitrogen compound, and an oxygen-containing gas as starting gases into a high temperature zone to produce fine particles of SiOxNy glass and depositing the fine particles in the form of a soot or a transparent glass on a starting member to produce nitrogen-doped silica glass.
Abstract translation:一种用于制造用于光传输纤维的玻璃的方法,其包括将气态硅化合物,氨或气态氮化合物和含氧气体作为起始气体供应到高温区域中以产生SiO x N y玻璃的细颗粒和沉积 在起始构件上形成烟灰或透明玻璃形式的细颗粒以产生掺氮石英玻璃。
Abstract:
The invention relates to a multimode optical fibre having a refractive index profile, comprising a light-guiding core surrounded by one or more cladding layers. The present invention furthermore relates to an optical communication system comprising a transmitter, a receiver and a multimode optical fibre.
Abstract:
The invention relates to an optical waveguide and a semifinished product for producing an optical waveguide having optimized diffraction properties, comprising a trench structure that has a radius-dependent graded refractive index curve and/or a concentric depressed refractive index profile within a core zone (2) and/or within a cladding zone (4). In one embodiment of the optical waveguide and semifinished product, the structure is formed from a succession of differently doped regions containing dopants that are introduced into a base matrix and lower and/or increase the refractive index.
Abstract:
A mixed quartz powder contains quartz powder and two or more types of doping element in an amount of from 0.1 to 20 mass %. The aforementioned doped elements include a first dope element selected from the group consisting of N, C and F, and a second dope element selected from the group consisting of Mg, Ca, Sr, Ba, Sc, Y, Ti, Zr, Hf, the lanthanides and the actinides. The “quartz powder” is a powder of crystalline quartz or it is a powder of glassy SiO2 particles. It is made form natural occurring quartz or it is fabricated synthetically. The “quartz powder” may be doped. The compounding ratio of the total amount (M1) of the aforementioned first elements and the total amount (M2) of the aforementioned second elements as the ratio of the number of atoms (M1)/(M2) is preferably from 0.1 to 20. Al as well as the aforementioned doped elements is preferably included in a mixed quartz powder of this invention.
Abstract:
First of all, there is provided a production process of a synthetic quartz glass which has less impurity, has a high-temperature viscosity characteristic equal to or more than that of a natural quartz glass, and hardly deforms even in a high-temperature environment, and especially a production process of a highly heat resistant synthetic quartz glass which is free from the generation of bubbles and is dense. Secondly, there is provided a highly heat resistant synthetic quartz glass body which is easily obtained by the production process of the present invention, and especially a transparent or black quartz glass body which is free from the generation of bubbles, is dense, has high infrared absorption rate and emission rate, and has an extremely high effect for preventing diffusion of alkali metal. The process is a process of producing a highly heat resistant quartz glass body having an absorption coefficient at 245 nm of 0.05 cm−1 or more, and the silica porous body was subjected to a reduction treatment, followed by baking, thereby forming a dense glass body.