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Features of the production of glasses for claddings of rigid multimode optical fiber

Publication in Journal of Optical Technology

For Russian citation (Opticheskii Zhurnal):

Дяденко М.В. Особенности получения стекол для оболочек жесткого многомодового оптического волокна // Оптический журнал. 2014. Т. 81. № 8. С. 68–79.

Dyadenko M.V. Features of the production of glasses for claddings of rigid multimode optical fiber [in Russian] // Opticheskii Zhurnal. 2014. V. 81. № 8. P. 68–79.

For citation (Journal of Optical Technology):

M. V. Dyadenko, "Features of the production of glasses for claddings of rigid multimode optical fiber," Journal of Optical Technology. 81(8), 472-480 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1364/JOT.81.000472

Abstract:

Glasses synthesized on the basis of the R2O-B2O3-SiO2 system, where R2O is Na2O or K2O, have been investigated for the reflective and protective claddings of optical fiber. Laws have been established to describe how the oxides affect the glass-forming capability of optical glasses and their tendency to crystallize in the temperature interval in which optical fiber is drawn and to describe their thermal and optical characteristics. Laws have also been established to describe how the composition and structural factors affect the rheological properties of glasses for the claddings of optical fibers. The optimum concentrations of Al2O3, BaO, and MgO additives have been determined so that their introduction into the composition of the glasses for the light-reflecting cladding ensures that the temperature interval in which the viscosity of the glasses varies from 109 to 104 Pa sec is at least 360°C. The glasses for the light-reflecting and protective claddings are matched with the glass of the light-conducting core with respect to viscosity indices.

Keywords:

optical fiber, reflective cladding, protective cladding, refractive index, crystallizability, viscosity

OCIS codes: 060.2310, 160.2750, 000.1570, 160.4670, 160.4760, 060.2340

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