USING POROUS GRAINS IN POWDER-IN-TUBE (PIT) PROCESS
The embodiments disclosed herein seek to ameliorate the high costs associated with the use of ultra-pure silica by using a lower-cost starting material and purifying the lower-cost starting material to an acceptable level of purity during the preform manufacturing process. In one embodiment, instead...
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Zusammenfassung: | The embodiments disclosed herein seek to ameliorate the high costs associated with the use of ultra-pure silica by using a lower-cost starting material and purifying the lower-cost starting material to an acceptable level of purity during the preform manufacturing process. In one embodiment, instead of using fully densified silica particulate, the disclosed process uses mesoporous silica grains that have a substantially monodisperse size distribution as the starting materials for a powder-in-tube preform manufacturing process. |
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