Synthesis And Characterisation Of Rare Earth-Doped Silica Nanoparticles For Optimising Vapour Phase Doping Technique

The synthesis of rare earth-doped aluminosilicate soot particles through vapour phase doping technique has been systematically investigated to achieve better control of rare earth homogeneity in silica glass. The experiments were designed to establish the correlation of process conditions with the physicochemical properties of the formed soot particles. Attained results depict that the characteristics of soot particles are much dependent on vapour phase compositions as well as the deposition temperature.