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Manufacturing method of a light scattering light guide

  • US 5,580,932 A
  • Filed: 03/18/1994
  • Issued: 12/03/1996
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/27/1991
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A manufacturing method of a light scattering light guide, comprising the steps of:

  • (a) providing first and second organic substances, the first organic substance being a monomer and the second organic substance being a polymer or oligomer, a polymer of the first organic substance having a different refractive index and a different compatibility than those of the second organic substance;

    (b) preparing a mixed transparent solution by substantially completely dissolving the second organic substance in the first organic substance;

    (c) starting a polymerization reaction;

    (d) allowing the first organic substance in the mixed transparent solution to polymerize so that as polymerization proceeds, compatibility with the second organic substance decreases causing the second organic substance to coagulate; and

    (e) obtaining a heterogeneous coagulated structure having heterogeneities with a size corresponding to a correlation distance "a" in the range of 0.07 μ

    m≦

    a≦

    50 μ

    m and an effective scattering irradiation parameter E in the range of 0.45 cm-1

    E ≦

    80 cm-1.

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