摘要:
Methods of making gradient property refractive elements such as gradient index lens blanks. The spatial distributions of constituents achieved by subjecting various starting assemblages to various diffusion conditions are predicted. Each such predicted spatial distribution of constituents is converted to a spatial distribution of the graded property. The property distribution which best approximates a desired distribution is selected, to thereby select one starting assemblage and one set of diffusion conditions. That assemblage and set of conditions are used in fabrication of the element.
摘要:
A method of manufacturing glass bodies, in which the starting material for the glass body, being an extrusion mass consisting of microdispersed SiO.sub.2 particles, a binder and a dispersing liquid, is used to form a porous green body by extrusion, which is subsequently dried, purified and sintered, the extrusion mass, which is shaped by the nozzle of an extruder, being extruded into a transfer vessel in which the extruded body is tempered towards the gelification point of the binder present in the extrusion mass, a liquid being contained in the transfer vessel, which cannot or substantially not be mixed with the dispersing liquid present in the extrusion mass, and which cannot be mixed with the binder present in the extrusion mass; and an arrangement for carrying out this method.
摘要:
Layered glass products such as multilayer glass rods or fibers are formed in a preferably continuous process wherein at least two component glasses are supplied to an annular mixing zone wherein relative movement of the annular surfaces produces spiral layering of the glasses and the formation of a glass product stream having a preselected gradient in composition and glass properties across a diameter thereof.
摘要:
An improved quality vitreous silica boby and/or improved quality product made at high temperature in a vitreous silica vessel is/are obtained by applying a polarizing potential across the boundary surfaces of the vitreous silica body or vessel to cause migration of impurity ions away from one of the boundary surfaces thereof. Single crystal silicon (10) of reduced alkali content is drawn from melt (12) in a vitreous silica crucible (14) with a polarizing voltage applied across the wall of the crucible.
摘要:
Anamorphic lenses or lens arrays are formed in photosensitively crystallizable glass by selective exposure of the glass surface and thermal treatment to cause the crystallization of the glass surrounding the lenses. The lenses, which have elongated cross-sections in the plane of the exposed glass surface and raised curved surfaces resulting from the densification of the surround material, exhibit different surface curvatures over their major and minor transverse axes and thus anamorphic light-focusing properties.
摘要:
A device for use with machines having plural article fabrication or tooling stations and an exit path remote from the stations indicates the specific fabrication or tooling station upon which a given individual article was formed. The device includes a display device having indicia such as numerals which correspond to the plural stations and drive means which causes a specific indicia to be displayed as an article from the corresponding remote tooling station traverses a given reference location along the exit path. The device expedites rapid tracing or malfunctions to specific ones of the plural forming stations.
摘要:
What is disclosed is a method of preparing carbon-containing monolithic glassy ceramics from organosilsesquioxanes, metal oxides and metal alkoxides through pyrolysis of their gels. Also disclosed are certain gel compositions used in the method and the glassy ceramics.
摘要:
The invention provides a novel method for manufacturing fused quartz glass by the decomposition and oxidation of a vaporizable silicon compound such as silicon tetrachloride in a plasma flame according to which the quartz glass rod produced contains a controlled amount of hydroxy groups with high reproducibility. The principle of the inventive method consists in the admixture of gaseous hydrogen chloride into the gaseous reactant mixture or in the plasma-supporting gas as the source for the hydrogen atoms to be converted to the hydroxy groups in place of hydrogen gas or water vapor as the hydrogen source. Good proportionality is established between the concentration of the hydrogen chloride in the gaseous feed and the hydroxy content in the resultant fused quartz glass rod.
摘要:
A glass layer is formed inside a silica glass tube and another glass layer having a refractive index higher than that of the abovementioned glass layer is formed on said glass layer. After these glass layers are formed, one end of the glass tube is collapsed. While the internal pressure of the glass tube is being reduced below the atmospheric pressure, the glass tube is caused to collapse by heating, thereby yielding a preform for an optical fiber. The optical fiber produced from this preform has the difference in the refractive indices of the two orthogonal major axes of at least 1.6.times.10.sup.-4 and maintains the linear polarization plane.
摘要:
A process for producing an optical fiber preform in a muffle furnace by hydrolyzing a gaseous glass forming material with a flame from an oxyhydrogen burner and depositing the resulting soot in a rod shape and an apparatus therefor are described, wherein a gas is supplied to the muffle furnace other than from said burner, and the volume supply of said gas is held constant by controlling the amount of a control gas supplied into an intermediate portion of an exhaust pipe through which the gases formed in the muffle furnace and the fine glass particles that do not deposit in a rod shape are discharged.