Abstract
The effect of Cl ions on the structural relaxation in silica glass was investigated by observing the fictive temperature, which was determined from the position of infrared absorption peak around 2260 cm−1 related to the average Si–O–Si bond angle. It has been found that Cl ions reduce the relaxation time of the long-range cooperative relaxation due to viscous flow, the so-called α relaxation. Moreover, Cl ions reduce the relaxation time of a subrelaxational process, caused by local structural relaxation. Although Cl has been used in industry only for dehydrating silica glass for optical fibers, these structural relaxation enhanced by Cl may be used advantageously to develop ultralow-loss fiber glass.
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