Type |
Applications |
Advantages |
Industries |
Phosphate Glasses |
Lasers, amplifiers, WDM, filters, special filters, fiber |
High concentration of dopants
Wide glass forming domain |
Communications Industry
Nuclear Energy Industry
Medical Industry
Defense Industry
Aerospace Industry |
Fluorophosphate Glasses |
Fiber amplifiers, WDM, radiation resistant windows and fibers, optical storage, lenses, DWDM substrates, lasers, fiber lasers, radiation resistant coatings |
High abbe number
No solarization under gamma and neutron radiation
High chemical durability
High concentration of dopants
Wide glass forming domain
UV transparent |
Germanate Glasses |
Lasers, IR fiber, IR windows, special filters |
High thermal expansion
Near IR transparent
High refractive index |
Germanium Phosphate Glasses |
Lasers, amplifiers, filters, fiber, DWDM substrates |
Wide glass forming domain
High refractive index
High thermal expansion |
Germanium Fluorophosphate Glasses |
High energy lasers, lenses, fiber, IR materials |
High refractive index
UV resistant
Wide glass forming domain
High concentration of dopants
High thermal expansion |
Fluorogermanate Glasses |
Radiation resistant windows |
High thermal expansion
High refractive index
High chemical durability |
Germanium Borofluoride Glasses |
High vacuum seals, optical matrice, capacitor dielectrics |
Wide glass forming domain
High thermal expansion
High chemical durability |
Bismuth Fluorophosphate Glasses |
Fiber amplifiers, WDM, radiation resistant windows and fibers, optical storage, lenses, DWDM substrates, lasers, fiber lasers, radiation resistant coatings |
High abbe number
No solarization under gamma and neutron radiation
High chemical durability
High concentration of dopants
Wide glass forming domain |
Bismuth-Lead Fluorophosphate Glass Doped with Mn(II) |
Lasers, amplifiers, WDM, fiber, fiber lasers, lenses |
High refractive index
High chemical durability
High thermal expansion
Wide glass forming domain |
