Abstract:
Provided is an optical member having high strength, low reflection, and a high transmittance. The optical member includes: a transparent substrate; and a porous glass layer having a spinodal-type porous structure disposed on the transparent substrate, in which at least one of the average pore diameter of a pore formed in the porous glass layer and the average skeleton diameter of a skeleton of the porous glass layer is set so that the optical member has a transmittance of 50% or more in the wavelength region of 450 nm or more and 650 nm or less.
Abstract:
This invention provides a porous glass with a varied porous structure that shows an excellent optical performance. A method of manufacturing a porous glass comprising: a first step of forming a surface layer containing a boron compound and an alkali metal compound as main ingredients on a matrix glass containing a silicon oxide, a boron oxide and an alkali metal oxide; a second step of heat treatment the matrix glass and the surface layer for phase separation to form a phase-separated glass; and a third step of acid treatment the phase-separated glass to form the porous glass having pores.
Abstract:
A method for manufacturing a porous glass includes: forming a phase-separated glass by heating at a temperature in a range of 300 to 500 degrees Celsius for 3 to 50 hours for phase separation of a glass body in which the concentration of SiO 2 is 50 to 70 percent by weight, the concentration of B 2 O 3 is 15 to 40 percent by weight, the concentration of Li 2 O is 1.0 to 8.0 percent by weight, the concentration of Na 2 O is 2.0 to 8.0 percent by weight, the concentration of K 2 O is 0.3 to 5.0 percent by weight, the total concentration of Li 2 O, Na 2 O, and K 2 O is 3.5 to 15 percent by weight, and the ratio of the concentration of K 2 O to the total concentration of Li 2 O, Na 2 O, and K 2 O is 0.10 to 0.30; and forming a porous glass by etching the phase-separated glass.
Abstract:
To provide a method of manufacturing a porous glass in which the porosity decreases as a function of the distance from the surface in the direction of depth. A method of manufacturing a porous glass includes a step of bringing one or more than one ion species selected from silver ion, potassium ion and lithium ion into contact with a matrix glass containing borosilicate glass as main ingredient and heating the matrix glass to form a glass body having an ion concentration distribution with a concentration of the one or more than one ion species decreasing as a function of a distance from a surface in a direction of depth, a step of heating and phase-separating the glass body to form a phase-separated glass, and a step of etching the phase-separated glass to form a porous glass having a porosity decreasing as the function of the distance from the surface in the direction of depth.