Broadband polarizer made using ion exchangeable fusion drawn glass sheets

US10209419B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• CORNING INCORPORATED · US

Inventors

• Nicholas Francis Borrelli · Elmira, US
• Nakia Leigh Heffner · Corning, US
• Joseph Michael Matusick · Corning, US
• Joseph Francis Schroeder, III · Corning, US
• Thomas P. Seward, III · Elmira, US
• Natesan Venkataraman · Corning, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Sep 11, 2014
• Grant date: Feb 19, 2019
• Expiry date: Mar 5, 2037

Classification

• Technology area (CPC C): Chemistry; Metallurgy
• CPC primary: C03C2214/16
• WIPO field: Materials, metallurgy
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

The disclosure is directed to broadband, glass optical polarizers and to methods for making the glass optical polarizers. The glass optical polarizer includes a substantially bubble free fusion drawn glass having two pristine glass surfaces and a plurality of elongated zero valent metallic particle polarizing layers.