Fused silica is a synthetic material. It is a non-crystalline silica glass and is made from either pure silicon gas or non-crystalline silica sand. Fused silica is the purest form of glass, offering high transmission in the UV spectrum.

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There are many sizes of Fresnel lenses, called ‘orders’, the largest being a first order, which is made up of hundreds of glass prisms. The lenses decrease in size through second order, third order, etc. Some have red panels, in order to shine a red light seaward. The glass prisms are shaped and positioned in such a way that the light from the single source inside the lens is reflected outward horizontally through each prism. In this way, the light streaming outward in all different directions is maximized into large beams shining out to sea. The number of beams depend on the configuration of the prisms, which can vary greatly. Different lighthouses must display beams for differing periods of time in order to be distinguished from one another.

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Generally Fresnel lenses are divided into 7 classes (called “orders”). The order is determined by the distance of the flame to the lens. The “First Order Fresnel lens” is the largest lens widely used, and was installed in many of the largest “sea coast lights”. Two larger sizes were built in limited quantity and they are the for a couple of special installations. Smaller Fresnel lenses, such as the sixth-order lens, were installed in smaller lighthouses, such as breakwater lighthouses. See the chart below of lens orders which represents standard beehive type designs in general and not varying at all in characteristics..

It can be manufactured in translucent or opaque form and the purity it offers makes it the ideal material for applications such as items of optical equipment which rely on UV transmission. An example of this would be equipment which uses UV rays in order to sterilise surfaces and or/equipment for medical purposes. The purity it offers also makes fused silica the material of choice for the manufacture of semi-conductor and laboratory equipment.

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This Third and a Half Order lens was one typically built for service on the Great Lakes as it was a medium size between a Fourth and Third Order lens, a Fourth was to small and a Third was just to large for the intended use. This is a fixed lens and not a rotating lens. This is the Gray’s Reef lens and can be seen at the Charlevoix Historical Society Museum.

This is a Fifth Order lens from the Ontonagon lighthouse. This lens exhibited a red light and as such had a red chimney placed around the lamp inside to make the lens color change. This is what is called a beehive type design. Although some lenses had flash panels installed on them, this one does not. This lens can be seen in downtown Ontonagon at the local museum.

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The Fresnel lens is the 1822 invention of French physicist Augustine Fresnel who invented a lens that would make his name commonplace along the seacoasts of Europe and North America. Most lenses were handmade and shipped unassembled from France. Others were made in England. Early lens designs resembled a giant glass beehive, with a light at the center (see examples below). The lens could be as tall as twelve feet high with concentric rings of glass prisms above and below a center drum section to bend the light into a narrow beam. Later designs incorporated a bull’s eye design into the center of the lens shaped like a magnifying glass, so the concentrated beam was even more powerful. Tests showed that while an open flame lost nearly 97% of its light, and a flame with reflectors behind it still lost 83% of its light, the Fresnel lens was able to capture all but 17% of its light. Because of its amazing efficiency, a Fresnel lens could easily throw its light 20 or more miles to the horizon.

When a client comes to UQG Optics with a requirement they sometimes know whether they need fused quartz or fused silica, but in other cases they may not be entirely clear. We will draw on our expertise and experience to advise as to which of the materials will be best suited to the optical component in question.

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Fused silica, for example, is manufactured using a process known as flame hydrolysis. Although this offers the highest possible level of purity it is also expensive, complex and time consuming, and is only needed in those components which demand the very highest levels of optical purity.

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*Source: Guardians of the Golden Gate: Lighthouses and Lifeboat Stations of San Francisco Bay Ralph Shanks and Lisa Woo Shanks, editor. 1995, Costano Books, ISBN: 0-930268-08-3.

Fused silica and fused quartz are amongst some of the most popular optical materials. However, there can be some confusion between the two due to their similar properties, to the components, they are used for. In this article, we’ll look at the differences and similarities between fused quartz and fused silica.

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A Fourth Order lens was very typical on the Great Lakes and especially Michigan. A lot of pier head lights and lighthouses displayed one of these lenses. It was a lens size most commonly used throughout the lakes and some ocean coastal harbor stations.

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This is a Third Order lens. This lens is a fixed lens and not meant to be rotated. Some of these lenses are on display around Michigan Museums. This one is the Big Bay Point lens on display in Marquette.

The degree to which fused quartz glass contains impurities and/or naturally occurring flaws will be governed by the quality of the quartz sourced for its manufacture. Although fused quartz glass contains more flaws than fused silica, it should be noted that these flaws will not be visible to the naked eye, and only impact upon the viability of fused quartz as a material for applications with extremely high optical requirements.

For many applications, fused quartz glass provides sufficient levels of optical purity as well as the other shared properties detailed above, whilst being less expensive and time consuming to manufacture. For those reasons we will often recommend it to clients, particularly if they are seeking large-scale production of optical components or working to tighter budgets and deadlines.

This Sixth Order lens is the smallest of the lenses made for lighthouses. It was designed for small light stations or pier head type lights. This one is on display inside the Saulte Saint Marie Coast Guard Station. These lights were common in the Great Lakes on small harbors or piers.

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This means that fused quartz has a lower OH content than the synthetic alternative, as well as lower optical quality and more flaws and bubbles. In most cases, fused quartz glass is transparent and, despite being inferior in quality to fused silica, can still offer excellent optical, electrical and thermal properties, as well as being highly resistant to corrosion.

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Early Fresnel lenses were of standard shapes and designs with little deviation such as the one pictured above. They had an oil lantern that burned constantly from dusk until dawn with no flashing or blinking as you may think of them today. Once they started being used along the coasts in greater numbers the mariner could not tell where they were at night because nothing distinguished one light from another. For a lighthouse to be effective as an aid to navigation, it not only had to be seen, it also had to be identified as a unique location. This was necessary if ships were to use it to determine their own location and avoid hazards. From here on out different lenses were made with different characteristics and as such required different lens designs. This meant that a lot of lenses were now unique because they would require flash panels or bull’s eyes to distinguish one light from the next. The need to clearly identify each lighthouse was often solved by a specific pattern of flashes per minute. Although sometimes lighthouses identified themselves by using colored light, most made use of a flash of light, followed by a period of darkness. This pattern was called the lighthouse’s “characteristic.” Once electricity was introduced a light could use a flashing mechanism to give it a unique characteristic flash pattern. Now a sea captain could tell where he was by looking at a map and the flash pattern of the light and tell he was in Maine or Massachusetts.

Unlike fused silica, fused quartz is made from naturally occurring material in the form of crystalline quartz or silica grains. Fused quartz glass is manufactured by melting the natural quartz crystals, with the results containing more impurities than fused silica.

A First Order lens found at the Ponce De Leon Inlet Lighthouse near Daytona Beach Florida. No First Order lenses were used in the Great Lakes. These lenses are huge!

A Second Order lens from Standard’s Rock lighthouse in Lake Superior. One of only a small handfull of this size lenses used in the Great Lakes. This one has bull eyes in the center and is meant to create a flash pattern as it is rotated.

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