Effect of Compositional Variations and Processing on the Optical Scattering of ZBLAN Glass
18 October 1989
Molecular light scattering in the Mie and Rayleigh regime has been measured as a function of scattering angle at wavelengths between 0.6 and 2.6microns on bulk samples of ZBLAN glasses. The effect of oxide and p-block additions as well as the effect of processing variations on the scattering have been measured. From an analysis of the angular scattering of both vertically and horizontally polarized beams the Rayleigh ratios, dyssemetry and depolarization factors are determined as a function of wavelength.