随着光子学技术的发展,利用玻璃和光的相互作用改变光的极化态、频率、相干性和单色性,以及产生光子和探测光子的新型光功能玻璃成为光学玻璃发展的主要方向.本文针对光学玻璃及其在光学和信息技术等相关应用领域的重要性和发展作了介绍,重点阐述了非线性光学玻璃、梯度折射率光学玻璃、激光玻璃以及其他光功能玻璃的主要特性和发展状况,并对我国的光学玻璃工业发展作了回顾.

With the development of photonic technique,the novel optical function glasses which could change the polarization, frequency, coherency and monochromaticity of light, produce and detect photon, become a main development subject in optical glass field. In this paper the sgnificant development of optical glasses and their applications in the fields of optics and information technology are introduced. The development trend and the characteristics of the main optical functional glasses such as nonlinear opticl glass, gradient index glass, laser glass and other optical function glass are pointed out. Finally the progress made by chinese optical glass industry has been reviewed.