Phase separation often makes glass structure inhomogeneous. Nevertheless, a uniform texture consisting of single-crystal domains has been found by crystallization in nonstoichiometric glass, i.e., perfect surface-crystallization (PSC). Although the PSC is probably caused by evolution of SiO2-rich amorphous nanoparasites on the domain, its mechanism has not been understood yet. In this study, we examined an early-stage of PSC in a strontium-titanosilicate glass by means of nanoscopic observations. It was demonstrated that the binodal-like nanometric phase-separation and crystal-growth of fresnoite-type phase occur simultaneously at the crystal interface. It was strongly suggested that the PSC process is driven by the phase separation.

Silicate glass has been used for long time because of its advantages from material’s viewpoint. In this paper, we report the observation of Pockels effect by Mach–Zehnder interferometer in polycrystalline ceramics made from a ternary silicate glass via crystallization due to heat-treatment, i.e., glass-ceramics. Since the silicate system is employed as the precursor, merits of glass material are fully utilized to fabricate the optical device component, in addition to that of functional crystalline material, leading us to provide an electro-optic device, which is introducible into glass-fiber network.

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A compact tunable laser module integrating a newly developed DBR/Ring laser and an extremely-high- Δ PLC wavelength locker is demonstrated with narrow spectral linewidth of <100 kHz across the full C-band.

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