摘要:
Lowered cost fabrication including preparation of large bodies of void-free, high-silica glass, depends upon gellation of an aqueous sol of colloidal silica particles, followed by drying and firing of such gel. Freedom from cracks in the dried gel is the consequence of included polymeric material which wets the particles. The polymeric material is removed by thermal decomposition attended upon temperature attained in firing.
摘要:
Lowered cost fabrication including preparation of large bodies of void-free, high-silica glass, depends upon gellation of an aqueous sol of colloidal silica particles, followed by drying and firing of such gel. Freedom from cracks in the dried gel is the consequence of included polymeric material which wets the particles. The polymeric material is removed by thermal decomposition attended upon temperature attained in firing.
摘要:
The disclosed method of producing optical fiber comprises providing a silica-based glass rod of diameter D that comprises a core region of effective diameter d surrounded by cladding material (D/d typcially>2) and a silica-based porous jacketing tube, inserting the glass core rod into the porous tube, consolidating the porous material and sintering the jacketing tube onto the core rod such that a substantially pore-free optical fiber preform results. Fiber is then drawn from the preform in the conventional manner. Consolidation and sintering is carried out at a temperature below the softening temperature of the material, typically
摘要:
High silica glass is formed by sintering a dried gel. The gel has a pore size distribution such that at most about 5% of the total pore volume is contributed by pores having an effective pore diameter greater than about 0.5 .mu.m, and such that at least 10% of the total pore volume is contributed by pores having an effective pore diameter greater than about 0.02 .mu.m. This pore size distribution permits effective migration of fluid into, and out of, the gel, permits sintering at a lower temperature, and results in increased perfection of the glass. The pore size distribution can be achieved by appropriate comminution, e.g., ball-milling, of intermediate material. A novel process for forming high silica glass is also disclosed. The process comprises forming intermediate material by hydrolysis of one or more metal alkoxides, comminuting the intermediate material to produce colloidal particles, forming a sol by dispersing the particles in liquid, gelling the sol, drying the gel, and sintering the dried gel.
摘要:
A method for forming articles which include silica-containing glass bodies, as well as the resulting articles, are disclosed. In accordance with the method, silica-containing gel particles are fused to form a glass body. In contrast to previous such methods, these particles are formed by mechanically, substantially uniformly subdividing either a substantially cohesive gel body, or an ungelled or partially gelled sol capable of yielding a substantially cohesive gel body, to form substantially uniformly sized, wet gel particles. Significantly, only substantially cohesive gel bodies which are also substantially elastic are useful in the invention, i.e., mechanical subdivision of non-elastic gel bodies results in these bodies undergoing plastic flow to yield non-particulate, pasty masses.
摘要:
Incorporation of fluorine into a porous silica body, such as an unsintered body produced by a sol-gel method, by VAD or OVPO, reduces or eliminates bubble or pore formation upon re-heating of the glass formed by sintering of the porous material. Effective fluorine concentrations are between 0.01 and 5% by weight. The invention can be used advantageously in producing preforms and optical fiber.
摘要:
Single mode and multimode silica-based optical fibers having a down-doped outer cladding are disclosed. The outer cladding material is derived from a preexisting silica tube that comprises an amount of index-lowering dopant, typically F or B, sufficient to result in an effective refractive index of the material that is at least about 0.001, preferably at least 0.0025, lower than the refractive index of SiO.sub.2. Single mode optical fiber according to the invention typically requires a smaller amount of deposited cladding material than an equivalent prior art fiber, and thus can be produced more economically. Multimode optical fiber according to the invention may have lower core doping or higher NA than equivalent prior art fiber. Down-doped substrate or sleeve tubes advantageously are produced by a gel process.
摘要:
This invention is predicated upon applicants' discovery that conventional techniques for minimizing metal loss from sintered ceramic materials are not adequate in the fabrication of small ceramic components such as multilayer monolithic magnetic devices wherein a magnetic core is substantially surrounded by an insulating housing. Applicants have determined that this metal loss problem can be solved by providing the component with a housing layer having an appropriate concentration of metal. Specifically, if the insulating housing material around the magnetic core has, during the high temperature firing, the same partial pressure of metal as the magnetic core material, there is no net loss of metal from the core. In a preferred embodiment, loss of zinc from a MnZn ferrite core is compensated by providing a housing of NiZn ferrite or zinc aluminate with appropriate Zn concentrations. Similar considerations apply to other ceramic components.
摘要:
Optical fiber drawn from preforms including sol-gel-derived glass is found to contain small refractory particles of the order of a micron in size. These particles initiate fiber breaks with the result that fiber may not meet proof-test tensile strength requirements. An effective separation method relies upon density and/or size difference from suspended sol particles for separation in the ungelled sol. A preferred separation procedure is centrifugation.
摘要:
High-silica glasses are formed by sintering a dried gel at temperatures below the liquidus. The gel may be formed by mixing colloidal silica particles or silica-containing liquids with appropriate liquids. Fragmentation of the gel during drying is advantageously avoided by redispersing the dried gel or sol in a liquid to yield a colloidal suspension which is then gelled, dried, and finally sintered below the liquidus.