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AssigneeThe Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
InventorsLeslie Brandon Shaw, Jasbinder S. Sanghera, Ishwar D. Aggarwal
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A doped glass composition is provided. A base glass is doped with rare earth ions Terbium Tb3+ and Europium Eu3+ to produce a glass that reduces the transmission of short-wave infrared radiation therethrough without reducing the transmission of visible light. A base glass composition is doped with Tb3+ and Eu3+ ions to an appreciable concentration, in some embodiments in excess of 5 mol % and in other embodiments to a concentration in excess of 1 mol %. A suitable glass for doping according to the present invention includes any glass that can accept rare earth ions at appreciable densities such as the densities described above, and can include oxide-based, fluoride-based, and chalcogenide-based glasses. The doped glass attenuates transmission of short-wave infrared radiation having wavelengths of about 1.8 μm to about 2.5 μm and does not reduce transmission of visible light having wavelengths from about 0.4 μm to about 0.8 μm.
A glass composition, comprising:
A lamp assembly having reduced emission of short-wave infrared radiation without having appreciably reduced emission of visible light, comprising:
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