NASA Research Propels Development Of New Glass

Here's a link with some more info on this new material:

http://lfw.pennnet.com/News/Display_...E&NewsID=88139

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Here's a link with some more info on this new material:

http://lfw.pennnet.com/News/Display_...E&NewsID=88139

bzzzzzzz.

Still not much information on what makes it so special. I just looked
at the manufarturer's web page
( http://www.containerless.com/realglass.htm ) and there it seems that
transmission up to 5500 nm and long life times of the laser ion are
special features. Tunability was mentioned somewhere in the Laser
Focus World aticle, but that is typical for glass hosts.

No mention of a high heat conductivity and with glasses typically a
factor of 10 worse than YAG, this is going to be a problem in the
high-power lasers they say it's so good for.

Christoph

Ron Baalke wrote:
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NASA RESEARCH PROPELS DEVELOPMENT OF NEW GLASS

There's a new glass in town. The glass, developed with
the help of a unique NASA levitator facility, is available for
numerous commercial applications including lasers and optical
communications.

"We have patented a family of new glasses and have established
processes for making and using them in practical
applications," said Dr. Richard (Rick) Weber, director of the
Glass Products Division of Containerless Research Inc., the
small company that invented and produces the glass in
Evanston, Ill. "We're already making commercial quantities of
glass rods and plates for use in lasers," he said.

REAl Glass -- made from Rare Earth oxides, Aluminum oxide
and small amounts of silicon dioxide -- has unique properties
that were identified using both the company's containerless
processing techniques and a NASA ground-based research
facility.

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That many buzzwords ...
Appears to be the usual get-funds-hype to attract investors,
and/or justify public subsidies.

Rene
--
Ing.Buero R.Tschaggelar - http://www.ibrtses.com
& commercial newsgroups - http://www.talkto.net

Instead of spendy glass for lasers, how about just plain old BASALT,
as a glass fiber that'll sufficiently knock your GPa socks off.

Basalt tether GPa update: http://guthvenus.tripod.com/gv-lse-gpa.htm

Be advised; The following is yet another paid infomercial on behalf of
another means to an end, of creating a lunar gateway that'll help
rather immensely in getting your sorry butt to/from places like a warm
and toasty Venus, or a frozen and irradiated to death planet like
Mars. But there's certainly more to this LSE-CM/ISS, such as
accommodating a 100 GW laser cannon, of 0.5 milliradian as a weapon or
perhaps something more personal, such as a 0.05 milliradian pinpoint
targeting capability, sort of an ABL on steroids.

AS is Death Ray via Boeing/TRW:
http://guthvenus.tripod.com/death-ray.htm

Besides way too many other topics, here's the ongoing LSE UPDATES:
LSE Lobby: http://guthvenus.tripod.com/gv-lse-lobby.htm
LSE Flywheels: http://guthvenus.tripod.com/gv-se-flywheels.htm
PRO/CON of ESE/LSE: http://guthvenus.tripod.com/gv-ese-lse.htm
Basalt tether GPa update: http://guthvenus.tripod.com/gv-lse-gpa.htm
What stinking insurance?
http://guthvenus.tripod.com/gv-ese-invincible.htm
Your basic lunar space elevator:
http://guthvenus.tripod.com/gv-cm-ccm-01.htm
This is for the ESE huggers cult:
http://guthvenus.tripod.com/gv-edwards-se.htm
Another LSE delivery effort:
http://guthvenus.tripod.com/gv-cm-ccm-elevator.htm

Regards, Brad Guth / IEIS~GASA / the discovery of other LIFE on Venus