Studies of Preparation and Characteristics in Borosilicate Photosensitive Glass-Ceramics

Tao Zheng, Xin Xu, Jingsheng Pan, Shengchun Xiao, Jingwen Lv

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DOI: 10.4236/msa.2012.32015                

Abstract

Photosensitive glass-ceramics have been extensively studied in recent years in that it is an attractive high diffraction efficiency grating materials. It is based on Stookey’s mixed fluoride sodium glass system for us to adopt, design prescriptions on the basis of SiO₂-Na₂O-Al₂O₃-ZnO for the glass main component and a series of glass doped with CeO₂, AgNO₃ and NaF etc. melted at about 1450?C, and the glass have good optical property (homogeneity, without bubble and stripe, high transparency). The borosilicate glass was exposed by ultraviolet light, and then after the heat treatment of the sample, the measurement of ultraviolet-visible-near infrared absorption spectrum and the X ray diffraction of exposure part was performed.

Keywords

Borosilicate Glass; Heat Treatment System; Radiation Induced Absorption

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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