PREPARATION OF A LIGHT FOCUSING GLASS ROD BY ION-EXCHANGE TECHNIQUES
- 15 July 1969
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Applied Physics Letters
- Vol. 15 (2), 76-77
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1652909
Abstract
A glass rod with a radially graduated refractive index was produced by replacing the lithium ions contained in the glass composition with sodium ions from a fused salt bath. Glass rods with such refractive index gradients are potentially useful as low resolution imaging devices.Keywords
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