PURPOSE: To produce easily a distributed index medium having the refractive index changing stepwise in the optical axis direction and a low aberration by laminating plural planar media having the refractive indices different from each other in order of the refractive indices.
CONSTITUTION: Plural optical planar glass plates 1 having the refractive indices different from each other are prepd. The plates 1 are laminated in order of the refractive indices by adhesion or melt-sticking and are made thinner by heating and stretching if necessary. The intended distributed index medium 2 having the refractive indices changing stepwise in the optical axis direction is obtd. The production of the medium 2 is also possible by supplying a gaseous raw material for forming glass to a burner for synthesizing fine glass particles, forming the fine particles for forming glass consisting essentially of SiO2 and contg. a dopant to adjust the refractive indices by a flame hydrolysis method and sticking and growing the fine particles on the substrate from the direction perpendicular thereto while changing the concn. of the dopant then vitrifying the particles.
TOOYAMA MINORU
JPS56154707A | 1981-11-30 | |||
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