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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7793522 | Method and apparatus for forming a preform for a micro-structured optical fiber An intermediate preform is formed in a process of manufacturing an optical fibre by forming a sol containing a glass precursor; pouring the sol in a mold containing a set of elongate elements; aging the sol to obtain a gel body; removing the set of elongate elements... | 09/14/2010 |
| 7413773 | Internally colored block and process Internally colored glass and glass-like blocks (10) and the method for making them. No means for coating the internal cavities (26) of clear glass and glass-like hollow blocks has been available. Color coating provides aesthetically pleasing structures... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7295737 | Mechanically strippable upcoated optical fiber An upcoated optical fiber includes an optical fiber having a ultra-violet (UV) curable upcoating and a slip layer disposed between the optical fiber and the upcoating. The upcoating is mechanically strippable from the optical fiber and may be colored for identificat... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7295740 | High air fraction photonic band gap fibers A photonic band gap fiber and method of making thereof is provided. The fiber is made of a non-silica-based glass and has a longitudinal central opening, a microstructured region having a plurality of longitudinal surrounding openings, and a jacket. The air fill fra... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7238310 | Process for producing an inorganic monolithic molding The invention relates to the use of gelation moulds made from hydrophobicized glass tubes for the production of monolithic mouldings as sorbents for chromatography. ... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7226522 | Method for the production of a mineral fibre product The present invention is directed to method of bonding mineral fibers in a mineral fiber material, according to which an acid is applied to the mineral fiber material in an amount sufficient to dissolve mineral material from the fiber to form a silica containing bin... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7159421 | Manufacture of planar waveguides using sol-gel techniques Silica sol techniques are described for making thick silica or silica based films useful for planar optical waveguides. The process involves coating of a colloidal silica sol onto a substrate, drying the sol, and consolidating the dried sol to form the planar wavegu... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7140202 | Method for manufacturing optical glasses and colored glasses at low temperatures The invention relates to a method for manufacturing optical glasses and colored glasses with the aid of a fluid phase sintering process from a basic material encompassing at least SiO.sub.2 powder as well as additives for reducing the temperature of the fluid phase ... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7125912 | Doped sol-gel materials and method of manufacture utilizing reduced mixing temperatures A method of preparing a solution for forming a doped gel monolith includes providing a first substance including a metal alkoxide. The method further includes providing a second substance including a catalyst. The method further includes providing a chemical includi... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7111476 | Electrophoretic deposition process for making quartz glass products Cup-shaped porous silica preforms suitable for manufacture of large 24-inch crucibles used in Czochralski crystal-growing furnaces are produced by a unique electrophoretic casting process using a high-purity aqueous silica slip or slurry having a predetermined parti... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7100400 | Manufacture of silica bodies using sol-gel techniques The use of large dense vitreous spherical (LDVS) silica powders for making sol-gel silica bodies has been found to have important advantages. Among these are higher gel strength, higher silica loading, more rapid aging and drying of the gel, a reduction in the amoun... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7080529 | Method for making large diameter optical waveguide having Bragg grating and being configured for reducing the bulk modulus of compressibility thereof The present invention provides a method for making a multicore large diameter optical waveguide having a cross-section of at least about 0.3 millimeters, two or more inner cores, a cladding surrounding the two or more inner cores, and one or more side holes for redu... | 07/25/2006 |
| 7070749 | Doped precipitated silica Foreign-atom-doped precipitated silicas having a BET surface area of more than 300 m2/g and a maximum surface concentration of the foreign atoms of 0.05 mmol/m2, to a process for preparing them and to the use of the resulting precipitated silic... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7058243 | Optical fiber sensor having a sol-gel fiber core and a method of making A simple, economic wet chemical procedure is described for making sol-gel fibers. The sol-gel fibers made from this process are transparent to ultraviolet, visible and near infrared light. Light can be guided in these fibers by using an organic polymer as a fiber cl... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7046875 | Optical coupler comprising multimode fibers and method of making the same An optical coupler is provided. It has a bundle of multimode fibers with a few-mode fiber in its centre. Such bundle is fused at one end which is the output end for the signal that is transmitted by the few-mode fiber. To make the coupler, this output end of the bun... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7043940 | Method for making thin fused glass articles A method suited for producing thin fused glass articles includes, in preferred aspects, preparing a dry gel having edges configured to reduce or eliminate warping of the gel during densification of the gel. Preferred aspects include partially densifying the gel, mac... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7024890 | Sol-gel process for the production of optical fiber preforms Sol-gel process for the production of optical fiber preforms or overcladdings by preparing a sol, gelling the sol, drying the wet gel to a dry porous gel and densifying the dry gel to fully dense glass, wherein during the calcination treatment from 350° C. to 900°... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7026362 | Sol-gel process utilizing reduced mixing temperatures A method of forming a gel monolith includes preparing a first solution comprising metal alkoxide and preparing a second solution comprising a catalyst. A third solution is prepared by mixing the first solution and the second solution together. At least one of the fi... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7013678 | Method of fabricating graded-index optical fiber lenses A GRIN fiber lens is fabricated by the steps of providing a graded index glass preform, thinning the graded index preform to remove a sufficient thickness of the graded glass to establish a desired Δn, and drawing a graded index optical fiber from the thinned grade... | 03/21/2006 |
| 7003981 | Low phonon energy gain medium and related active devices Using sol-gel techniques, an optical gain medium has been fabricated comprising a glass ceramic host material that includes clusters of crystalline oxide material, especially tin oxide, and that is doped with active ions concentrated at the clusters. The active ions... | 02/28/2006 |
| 7006745 | Method for manufacturing an optical waveguide component and an optical waveguide component produced using the method A method for manufacturing an optical waveguide component with several layers stacked on a silicon substrate. The layers include a buffer layer, a first substrate, a guiding layer on the buffer layer and including an optical waveguide, and an outer layer as protecti... | 02/28/2006 |
| 7000885 | Apparatus and method for forming a sol-gel monolith utilizing multiple casting A mold is configured to form a gel monolith including a first gel portion and a second gel portion. The mold includes a base including a first hydrophobic surface. The mold further includes a tubular outer wall including a second hydrophobic surface, and the outer w... | 02/21/2006 |
| 6998102 | Rapid process for producing transparent, monolithic porous glass A process for making transparent porous glass monoliths from gels. The glass is produced much faster and in much larger sizes than present technology for making porous glass. The process reduces the cost of making large porous glass monoliths because: 1) the process... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6974780 | Semiconductor processing methods of chemical vapor depositing SiO on a substrate The invention provides semiconductor processing methods of depositing SiO2 on a substrate. In a preferred aspect, the invention provides methods of reducing the formation of undesired reaction intermediates in a chemical vapor deposition (CVD) decompositi... | 12/13/2005 |
| 6966201 | High-temperature sintering of soot bodies doped using molecular stuffing Techniques are described for fabricating a preform from a soot body. In one described technique, a soot body is loaded into a substrate tube, and the position of the soot body is stabilized within the tube. The tube is then rotated around its longitudinal axis. Heat... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6938443 | Method for the manufacture of a quartz glass preform for an optical fiber The invention relates to a method for manufacture of a quartz glass preform for an optical fibre consisting of the following steps: preparation of a hollow cylinder made of porous quartz glass which exhibits an inner layer with a doping substance which increases the... | 09/06/2005 |
| 6928220 | Sol-gel-derived optical fiber preform and method of manufacture A method forms an optical fiber preform. The method includes forming a sol-gel-derived rod having a first diameter. Forming the sol-gel-derived rod includes preparing a sol-gel solution including at least 3 mole % of a catalyst. The sol-gel solution is allowed to un... | 08/09/2005 |
| 6915664 | Method of manufacturing a fluorine-doped silica powder The invention relates to a method of doping silica with fluorine. The method described comprises mixing a powder of silica granules with a solid fluorine compound, thermally decomposing the solid fluorine compound under an inert atmosphere, and densifying the granul... | 07/12/2005 |
| 6889528 | Process of making rare earth doped optical fiber The present invention discloses a process for making rare earth (RE) doped optical fiber by using RE oxide coated silica nanoparticles as the precursor material, more particularly the method of the present invention involves preparation of stable dispersions (sol) o... | 05/10/2005 |
| 6890873 | Glass prepared from pyrogenically prepared silicon dioxide Pyrogenically prepared silicon dioxide with the following physicochemical properties: 1. Average particle size (D50 value) D50≧150 nm (dynamic light scattering, 30 wt %) 2. Viscosity (5 rpm,... | 05/10/2005 |
| 6884822 | Sol-gel process utilizing reduced mixing temperatures A method of manufacturing a xerogel monolith having a pore diameter distribution includes preparing a first solution comprising metal alkoxide and preparing a second solution comprising a catalyst. A third solution is prepared by mixing the first solution and the se... | 04/26/2005 |
| 6860118 | Method for fabricating silica glass using sol-gel process The present invention discloses a method for fabricating silica glass using a sol-gel process, which includes a sol forming step for forming a sol by mixing a starting material, deionized water and an additive together; gelation step for gelatinizing the sol after f... | 03/01/2005 |
| 6799442 | Sol-gel process for the production of manufactures containing an incompressible insert and manufactures thereby obtained A sol-gel process is described that allows dry gels to be produced, and where necessary, the corresponding dense vitreous bodies, around an incompressible insert. A particular feature of the process is the step of rotating a container holding the sol and incompressi... | 10/05/2004 |
| 6732549 | Multi-pass sintering of a sol-gel body through a hot zone A process produces a glass overcladding tube from a silica gel body. The process includes passing the gel body through a hot zone under conditions that cause partial sintering of the gel body and repassing the gel body through the hot zone under conditions that furt... | 05/11/2004 |
| 6732545 | Silica structure crack monitoring Disclosed are silica structure crack detection methods and apparatuses particularly useful in sol-gel fabrication processes. A wave signature of a crack in the silica structure is sensed to indicate that cracking has occurred. Sensing may be by active or passive tec... | 05/11/2004 |
| 6723198 | Servo pattern formation via transfer of sol-gel layer and magnetic media obtained thereby A method of manufacturing a magnetic recording medium including a servo pattern, comprising steps of: (a) providing a non-magnetic substrate including at least one major surface; (b) providing a stamper having a surface with a plurality of recesses for... | 04/20/2004 |
| 6705126 | Method for fabricating holey optical fiber There is provided an apparatus and method for fabricating a holey optical fiber. An optical fiber with air holes of a predetermined size and shape along the length of the optical fiber is drawn by supplying nitrogen gas into air holes through one end of a holey opti... | 03/16/2004 |
| 6699808 | High-solids SiO2 dispersions, process for producing them, and their use Extremely high solids content silica dispersions are useful for forming green bodies of near net shape as compared to the shape of the bodies after sintering. The green bodies are particularly useful for sintering to form low impurity-containing crucibles... | 03/02/2004 |
| 6672110 | Method of forming an optical fiber preform by combustionless hydrolysis A method for manufacturing a glass preform includes supplying a first gaseous or vapor phase composition to a reaction chamber; supplying water as a second gaseous or vapor phase composition to the reaction chamber; reacting the water and the first gaseou... | 01/06/2004 |
| 6669892 | Method for preventing warpage of gel plates during sintering A new method is disclosed for producing thin plates by sintering a thin gel plate (e.g., silica) made using a sol-gel process, which substantially eliminates warpage of the plate during the sintering step. Sintering a sol-gel based silica plate to a dense... | 12/30/2003 |
