Journal
JOURNAL OF NON-CRYSTALLINE SOLIDS
Volume 352, Issue 23-25, Pages 2411-2415Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.jnoncrysol.2006.03.029
Keywords
glass-ceramics; infra-red fibers; chalcogenides; chalcohalides; optical properties
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The demand for infrared materials which exhibit higher performance is still growing; both on the thermal and mechanical side as well as on the width of the optical window, with an extension of the transparency towards the long wavelength region to satisfy the requirements of space applications. Glasses as well as glass-based ceramics offer the advantage of unique theological properties allowing molding and fiber drawing. In controlling the nucleation/growth process in a chalcogenide glass modified by an alkali halide, it has been possible to develop a new generation of glass ceramics containing nanosize grains and transparent in the mid infrared. For the optical exploration of the universe, new low phonon glasses transparent in the 20 mu m region and beyond are needed and to reach this goal a new family of telluride glasses was developed in combining Te with Ge with the addition of Gallium or Iodine for stabilization. These new optical glasses are transparent from 2 to 20 gm and can be drawn into fiber. (c) 2006 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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