Advances in Glass and Optical Materials II

Provides a state-of-the-art collection of recent papers on glass and optical materials as presented at the 6th Pacific Rim Conference on Glass and Optical Materials. Sections on structure and properties, optical applications, glass modeling, and industrial applications are included.

Part I : Structure and Properties Material Dispersion of Oxide and Fluoroaluminate Glasses (Pages: 1-12) Tomohisa Komiya, Shigeru Fujino, Makoto Kuwabara Structural and Spectroscopic Properties of Li2O-Ga2O3-SiO2-NiO System Transparent Glass-Ceramics (Pages: 13-20) Takenobu Suzuki, Yoshihide Nakatsubata, Ganapathy Senthil Murugan, Yasutake Ohishi Ultrasonic Velocity and Elastic Properties of Alkali Borate Glasses (Pages: 21-36) Masao Kodama, Seiji Kojima, Steven A. Feller, Mario Affatigato Medium-Range Structural Changes of Covalent Chalcogenide Glasses and Fluorescence Lifetimes of Doped Rare Earths (Pages: 37-43) Y. G. Choi, W. J. Chung, B. J. Park, H. S. Seo, J. T. Ahn Compositional Dependence of Refractive Index in Tellurite Glasses (Pages: 45-52) S. Akamine, T. Nanba, Y. Miura, S. Sakida Optical Properties of Rare Earth Ions in Heavy Metal Oxide Glasses (Pages: 53-62) R. Yamaguchi, M. Muguruma, T. Nanba, Y. Miura, S. Sakida Part II : Optical Applications Novel Oxide-Based Glasses for Raman Gain Applications (Pages: 63-81) Clara Rivero, Robert Stegeman, George Stegeman, Kathleen Richardson, Thierry Cardinal, Evelyne Fargin, Michel Couzi, Philippe Thomas, Jean-Claude Champarnaud-Mesjard Recording of Robust Holographic Optical Elements in Glass (Pages: 83-97) Leonid B. Glebov Fabrication of the Pr3+ Doped Ge-Ga-Sb-Se Glass Optical Fiber for U-Band Application (Pages: 99-106) Woon Jin Chung, Hong Seok Seo, Bong Je Park, Joon Tae Ahn, Yong Gyu Choi Optical Properties of Waveguides of Er3+-Doped Tellurite Glasses Prepared by Ag+-Na+ Ion-Exchange (Pages: 107-116) S. Sakida, T. Nanba, Y. Miura Surface and Inner Modification of Densified Silica Glass by Infrared Laser Irradiation (Pages: 117-126) Naoyuki Kitamura, Kohei Fukimi, Junji Nishii, Shohei Yasuda, Haruko Horiguchi, Hiromitsu Kozuka, Haruki Okuno, Nobuhito Ohno Optical Properties of Bi2O3-La2O3-Al2O3-B2O3 Glasses (Pages: 127-133) S. Sumimiya, T. Nanba, Y. Miura, S. Sakida New Phospho-Tellurite Glasses for Ultra-Broadband Fiber Raman Amplifiers (Pages: 135-140) G. Senthil Murugan, Takenobu Suzuki, Yasutake Ohishi Organic Dye Doped Silica Glasses Produced from Silica Nano-Particles by Using High Pressure at Room Temperature (Pages: 141-147) Naoyuki Kitamura, Kohei Fukumi, Junji Nishii Part III : Glass Modeling AB Initio Modeling of Glasses in the Sulfur-Selenium System (Pages: 149-163) John C. Mauro, Arun K. Varshneya Chemical Bonding Character of the Network Forming Bonds in Oxide Glasses (Pages: 165-177) Tokuro Nanba, Shinichi Sakida, Yoshinari Miura Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Crystalline and Vitreous Silica (Pages: 179-187) A. Takada A Theoretical Interpretation of 17O NMR Spectra in Borosilicate Glasses (Pages: 189-196) M. Urushihara, T. Nanba, Y. Miura, S. Sakida Part IV : Industrial Applications Quantitative Characterization of Nano-Scale Residual Stresses in Crystalline and Glassy Electronic Devices Performed into the Scanning Electron Microscope (Pages: 197-208) Giuseppe Pezzotti, Andrea Leto Nano-Scale Stress Measurement and Property Characterization of Silica-Based Electro Optical Devices Using their Native Defects Luminescence (Pages: 209-217) Andrea Leto, Giuseppe Pezzotti Properties of Manganese Tin Phosphate Glass for Novel Lead-Free Glass System (Pages: 219-226) Hirohisa Masuda Metal Phosphate Low-Melting Glasses Prepared by a Non-Aqueous Acid-Base Reaction (Pages: 227-233) Bouzid Menaa, Megumi Mizuno, Masahide Takahashi, Yomei Tokuda, Toshinobu Yoko, Bouzid Menaa, Masahide Takahashi Author Index (Pages: 235-236)