Welcome to the IMI’s first Glass Science & Technology
Training Module on
Optical and Photonics Glasses Delivered by Dr. Rui
Almeida for the International Materials Institute for New Functionality
in Glass At Lehigh University Spring 2005
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Table of Contents
Part I: An Introduction to Glass Formation, Structure and
Properties
Lecture 1: Introduction to Glass & the Glass Transition (view
presentation / print
slides) Lecture 2. Glass Formation
(view presentation / print slides)
Lecture 3. Kinetic Theory of
Glass Formation
(view presentation / print slides)
Lecture 4: Glass Composition and Preparation
(view presentation / print slides)
Lecture
5: Glass Structure I
(view presentation / print slides)
Lecture 6: Glass Structure II
(view presentation / print slides)
Lecture 7: Phase
Separation in Glass
(view presentation / print slides)
Lecture 8: Mechanical Behavior of Glass
(view presentation / print slides)
Lecture 9. Fracture Toughness
(view presentation / print slides)
Lecture 10. Viscosity
(view presentation / print slides)
Lecture 11:
Thermal Expansion of Glass
(view presentation / print slides)
Part II: Optical Glasses
12. Traditional Optical Glasses - Classification &
Fabrication (view
presentation / print
slides) 13. Absorption, Reflection and Refraction of Light (view
presentation / print
slides) 14. Glasses and Total Internal Reflection - Refraction of
Light in Absorbing (view
presentation / print
slides) 15. Polarization, Absorption and Color (view
presentation / print
slides) 16. Infrared Absorption & Raman Scattering in
Glass (view
presentation / print
slides) 17. Light Scattering in Glass- Introduction (view
presentation / print
slides) 18. Rayleigh & Mie Scattering, Metal Colloids and
Photo-elastic Properties (view
presentation / print
slides) 19. New Optical Glasses - Fluorides and
Chalcogenides (view
presentation / print
slides) 20. Faburation and Properties of Fluoride and Chalcogenide
Glasses (view
presentation / print
slides) 21. Abnormal Dispersion & Athermal Glasses (view
presentation / print
slides)
Part III: Photonic Glasses
22. Gradient Index Glasses (view
presentation / print
slides) 23. Optical Fibers I: Fabrication (view
presentation / print
slides) 24. Optical Fibers II: Types of Fibers, Modes &
Loss (view
presentation / print
slides) 25. Optical Fibers III: Fiber Dispersion (view
presentation / print
slides) 26. Optical Amplification in Fiber Optic Systems and
Photonic Crystal Fibers (view
presentation / print
slides) 27. Integrated Optics (view
presentation / print
slides) 28. Photochromic and Photosentitive Glasses (view
presentation / print
slides) 29. Photoinduced Effects in Glass (view
presentation / print
slides) 30. Acousto-optic and Magneto-Optic Glasses (view
presentation / print
slides) 31. Rare Earth Doped Glasses I - Fundamental (view
presentation / print
slides) 32. Rare Earth Doped Glasses II - Quantum Efficiency (view
presentation / print
slides) 33. RE Doped Glass III - Photoluminescence Decay Rates and
Processes (view
presentation / print
slides) 34. RE Doped Glass IV - Erbium Doping (view
presentation / print
slides) 35. Laser Glasses I - Fundamentals (view
presentation / print
slides) 36. Fiber and Waveguide Lasers and Amplifiers (view
presentation / print
slides) 37. Non-Linear Optical Glasses I - Fundamentals (view
presentation / print
slides) 38. Non-Linear Optical Glasses II - Semiconductor Doped
Nano-Glasses (view
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slides) 39. Non-Linear Optical Glasses III - Metal Doped
Nano-Glasses (view
presentation / print
slides)
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