Hostname: page-component-cd9895bd7-hc48f Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2025-01-05T00:39:44.837Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

New fluoroindate glass compositions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 January 2011

Y. Messaddeq ,
A. Delben ,
M.A. Aegerter ,
A. Soufiane  and
M. Poulain
Y. Messaddeq
Affiliation:
Instituto de Física e Química de Sāo Carlos, University of Sāo Paulo, 13560, Sāao Carlos (SP), Brazil
A. Delben
Affiliation:
Instituto de Física e Química de Sāo Carlos, University of Sāo Paulo, 13560, Sāao Carlos (SP), Brazil
M.A. Aegerter
Affiliation:
Instituto de Física e Química de Sāo Carlos, University of Sāo Paulo, 13560, Sāao Carlos (SP), Brazil
A. Soufiane
Affiliation:
Centre d'Etude des Matériaux Avancés, Av. Général Leclerc, Université de Rennes, Beaulieu, 35042, Rennes Cédex, France
M. Poulain
Affiliation:
Centre d'Etude des Matériaux Avancés, Av. Général Leclerc, Université de Rennes, Beaulieu, 35042, Rennes Cédex, France
Get access

Abstract

The limits of glass formation of new fluoroindate glass compositions have been determined for the basic systems InF3–BaF2–GdF3−20ZnF2−20SrF2–2XFn where × = Na, La and InF3–BaF2−20ZnF2−20SrF2−2GdF3–XFn, where × = Ca and Y. The incorporation of small amounts of GaF3 and/or GdF3 increases strongly the thermal glass stability. All the fluoroindate compositions studied are highly transparent in the mid-infrared range; their transmission edge is shifted beyond 7 μm and the theoretical attenuation coefficient, extrapolated at the CO laser wavelength emission, is typically α = 100 dB/km. Large bulks and preforms have been prepared allowing the drawing of optical fibers.

Type
Articles
Information
Journal of Materials Research , Volume 8 , Issue 4 , April 1993 , pp. 885 - 889
Copyright
Copyright © Materials Research Society 1993

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

REFERENCES

1Poulain, M., Poulain, M., and Maze, G., Fluoride Glasses-French Patent 2478618 (1980).Google Scholar
2Messaddeq, Y., These de Doctorat, University of Rennes, France (1990).Google Scholar
3Poulain, M., Poulain, M., Messaddeq, Y., and Soufiane, A., Fluoro-indate Glasses (The American Ceramics Society Inc., Westerville, OH, to be published).Google Scholar
4Mitachi, S., Shibata, S., and Monabe, T., El. Lett. 17 (3), 128–129 (1981).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
5Soufiane, A., private communication.Google Scholar
6Saad, M. and Poulain, M., Mater. Sci. Forum 19-20, 11 (1987).Google Scholar
7Almeida, R. M., Handbook on the Physics and Chemistry of Rare Earth, edited by Gschneider, K.A. Jr., and Eyring, L. (Elsevier Science Publishers B.V., New York, 1991), Vol. 15.Google Scholar
8Fontana, E.H., Bull. Am. Ceram. Soc. 49, 594 (1970).Google Scholar
9Webber, P.J. and Savage, J. A., J. Mater. Sci. 16, 763 (1981).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
10Christensen, P. S., Lucas, J., Kichton, S. N. C., and Moynihan, C. T., Mater. Sci. Forum 3233, 607 (1988).Google Scholar
11Almeida, R.M., Pereira, J. C., Messaddeq, Y., and Aegerter, M.A., Proc. 8th Int. Symp. on Halide Glasses, 22-25 September 1992, Perros-Guirec (France), p. 105.Google Scholar
12Lucas, J. and Adam, J. L., in Optical Properties of Glass, edited by Uhlmann, D. R. and Kreidl, N. J. (The American Ceramics Society Inc., Westerville, OH, 1991), Chap. 2.Google Scholar
13France, P.W., Drexhage, M. G., Parker, J. M., Moore, M.W., Carter, S.F., and Wright, J.V., Fluoride Glass Optical Fibers (Blackie, Glasgow, Scotland, 1990).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
14Christensen, S., Thèse de Doctorat, University of Rennes I, France (1991).Google Scholar
15Messaddeq, Y., Delben, A., Aegerter, M.A., Foy, P., and Sigel, G., unpublished work.Google Scholar