Plastic optical components

US5780159A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Föderung der Wissenschaften e.V. · US

Inventors

• Monika Bauer · Seligenstadt, DE
• Hartmut Krüger · Berlin, DE
• Andreas Bräuer · Schlöben, DE
• Peter Dannberg · Jena, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jul 30, 1996
• Grant date: Jul 14, 1998
• Expiry date: Jul 30, 2016

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10T428/31547
• WIPO field: Organic fine chemistry
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

The invention concerns optical elements made from polycyanurate resins, wh exhibit a refractive index, at 633 nm, in the range from 1.45 to 1.70 and an optical absorption, at 1.3 or 1.55 .mu.m, in the range from 0.1 to 1.0 dB/cm.