An Ultraviolet Faraday Rotator Glass.

Abstract

A Faraday rotator glass composition based on a fluoride glass, phosphate glass, fluorophosphate glass or a mixture there of is dope with a lanthanide in concentration sufficient to provide a Verdet constant above at least 2870 deg/Tesla-meter (1 MIN/CM-Oe) x (1.667 x 10 (exp 4) = 1 deg/Tesla-meter and optical transmission above at least 50 percent in a 25mm thick polished glass sample at least at one wavelength in the 200 to 400 nm wavelength region. The faraday rotator glass also includes monovolent non-lanthanide cations such as Na, Li, K or mixtures there of in a concentration sufficient to provide a Verdet constant above at least 2870 deg/Telsa-meter and optical transmission above at least 50 percent in a 25mm thick polished glass sample at least at one wave-length in the 200 to 400 nm wave-length region

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 29, 1993
Accession Number
ADD015879

Entities

People

  • David G. Cooper
  • Douglas H. Blackburn
  • James L. Dexter

Organizations

  • United States Department of the Navy

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Amorphous Materials
  • Fluoride Glass
  • Fluorides
  • Glass
  • Materials
  • Phosphate Glass

Readers

  • Materials Science and Engineering.