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Congruent Evaporation of Borosilicate Glass Strengthening Silica Fiber

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The work aims to study the evaporation process of borosilicate glass used for strengthening of silica fiber light guides. The composition of glass after high-temperature treatment was determined based on refractive index measurement. It was found that at temperature 2100 °C two-component SiO2-B2O3 glass vaporizes without changing its composition at a boron oxide content of ≈ 4 mol% in both oxygen and nitrogen atmospheres. The IR absorption spectra of borosilicate glass indicate the absence of boroxol rings of B2O3, which can explain the low partial pressure of its vapors compared to the ideal melt state. It is experimentally shown that the content of only 1 mol % B2O3 in the outer cladding of silica fiber increases its strength by 10% when the drawing temperature is reduced to 1900 °C. Such a small addition of boron oxide to silica glass decreases its viscosity, ensuring the occurrence of compressive stresses in the borosilicate cladding.

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The authors are thankful to Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Professor V. G. Peshekhonov for supporting this work and A.V. Khokhlov for the scientific and technical helps.

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  1. JSC Concern Central Research Institute Elektropribor, 30 Malaya Posadskaya Ul., Saint Petersburg, 197046, Russia

    Mikhail A. Eronyan, Alexey Yu. Kulesh, Marina K. Tsibinogina, Denis V. Glita & Alexander A. Untilov

  2. St. Petersburg National Research University of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics (ITMO University), 49 Kronverkskiy Pr., Saint Petersburg, 197101, Russia

    Mikhail A. Eronyan, Vera E. Sitnikova & Igor K. Meshkovskiy

  3. JSC “Research and Production Corporation S.I. Vavilov” Babushkina Str., 36, Building 1, Saint Petersburg, 192171, Russia

    Konstantin V. Dukelskiy & Peter A. Zlobin

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All authors contributed to the study conception and design. Material preparation, data collection and analysis were performed by  A.Yu. Kulesh, M.K. Tsibinogina,  D.V. Glita, V. E. Sitnikova   P.A. Zlobin  and  K.V. Dukelskiy.  The first draft of  the  manuscript was written by M.A. Eronyan. The final manuscript was written by I.K. Meshkovskiy and edited by  A.A Untilov. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.

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Eronyan, M.A., Kulesh, A.Y., Tsibinogina, M.K. et al. Congruent Evaporation of Borosilicate Glass Strengthening Silica Fiber. Silicon (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12633-024-03011-x

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