Glasses and Ceramics: Optical Properties and Optical Technologies
A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Advanced and Functional Ceramics and Glasses".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 August 2022) | Viewed by 3385
Special Issue Editor
Interests: oxide glasses; glass-based functional materials; nanostructured glasses; laser-induced micromodification of glasses and glass-ceramics; space-selective crystallization
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The role of glasses in current science and technology, and especially in optics and photonics, can hardly be exaggerated. Unexcelled transparency and reasonable strength and chemical durability together with low cost, excellent manufacturability, and ability to finely tune physical properties by the continuous variation of chemical compositions make glasses a type of materials of the utmost importance in optical technologies. Glasses can be an excellent host for activators of luminescence and are a unique media allowing for optical fiber production. Hence, they can be regarded as a key element of fiber-optical telecommunication systems and Internet which are essential for the whole of modern civilization. Nanoporous glasses combining optical transparency with permeability for nanosized agents have become the base of numerous functional nanomaterials.
At the same time, due to the disordered amorphous structure, isotropy, and chemical composition limited to glass-forming systems, glasses lack some important functional properties such as piezoelectricity, pyroelectricity, second-order optical nonlinearity, etc.; have limited spectral transmission window; and cannot compete with many single crystals in mechanical strength, durability, and luminescence efficiency. Optical ceramics are transparent polycrystalline materials based mainly on cubic phases and fabricated by ceramic production methods. They complement and expand the functionality of glasses in optical applications and offer a cost-effective alternative to single crystals. Glass-ceramics produced by the controlled crystallization of glasses gave birth to new types of highly viable materials such as ultra-low-expansion transparent glass-ceramics. Recently developed laser-based methods for the space-selective crystallization of glasses and amorphization of ceramics are opening the way for the development of novel types of components for micro-optics and integrated optical circuits.
It is my pleasure to invite you to contribute to the Special Issue “Glasses and Ceramics: Optical Properties and Optical Technologies”. We welcome the submission of full papers, communications, and reviews related to the optical properties of vitreous, ceramic, and glass-ceramic materials, and optical technologies based on these materials or related to their production, characterization, or processing.
Dr. Sergey V. Lotarev
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- optical materials
- glass
- ceramics
- glass-ceramic
- optical properties
- optical technologies
- photonics laser microfabrication
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