A method of producing a glass substrate having a hole is provided. The method includes preparing the glass substrate having a first surface and a second surface facing each other; forming a hole in the glass substrate with a laser; and annealing the glass substrate placed on a first support substrate having a thermal expansion coefficient whose difference from a thermal expansion coefficient of the glass substrate is less than or equal to 1 ppm/K, where the first support substrate is placed on a second support substrate having a thermal expansion coefficient of less than or equal to 10 ppm/K.

A cover window manufacturing system comprises a laser irradiation apparatus including a stage configured to receive a substrate. A first laser module is disposed above the stage to provide a first laser beam to a top surface of the substrate. A controller controls a position of a focal point of the first laser beam on the substrate. An etching apparatus includes a chamber having an etching solution disposed therein. The etching apparatus is configured to receive the substrate processed by the laser irradiation apparatus and etch the substrate processed by the laser irradiation apparatus by immersion in the etching solution.

A method for producing a cavity in a substrate composed of hard brittle material is provided. A laser beam of an ultrashort pulse laser is directed a side surface of the substrate and is concentrated by a focusing optical unit to form an elongated focus in the substrate. Incident energy of the laser beam produces a filament-shaped flaw in a volume of the substrate. The filament-shaped flaw extends into the volume to a predetermined depth and does not pass through the substrate. To produce the filament-shaped flaw, the ultrashort pulse laser radiates in a pulse or a pulse packet having at least two successive laser pulses. After at least two filament-shaped flaws are introduced, the substrate is exposed to an etching medium which removes material of the substrate and widens the at least two filament-shaped flaws to form filaments. At least two filaments are connected to form a cavity.

The invention relates to a method for manufacturing a hollow glass article including a step of marking the hollow glass article thus formed by laser, the surface of the hollow glass article being at a temperature between 400° C. and 600° C. The marking step consists in making filiform decorations by producing at least one continuous and shiny groove on the surface of the hollow glass article.

Provided is a silica glass disc in which the deformation amount thereof in heat treatment is minimized, and the surface area of a silica glass surface can be increased. There is provided a silica glass disc, including a dimple forming area in which a large number of dimples are formed on at least one of a front surface or a back surface of a silica glass body, and the dimples in the dimple forming area are regularly formed. It is preferred that the dimples be formed by a laser.

Disclosed is a method for manufacturing ultra-thin glass. The method includes: patterning, on a mother glass substrate comprising a plurality of display cells and a dummy area surrounding the display cells, a cutting line having a shape corresponding to the display cells; forming a mother glass protective film on the mother glass substrate; forming a through-hole which corresponds to the cutting line by etching the mother glass substrate; and cutting bridges which are formed by the mother glass substrate and connect the through-holes.

A method of forming a strengthened glass article is provided. The method includes providing a strengthened glass article. The strengthened glass article is in the form of a container including a sidewall having an exterior surface and an interior surface that encloses an interior volume. The sidewall has an exterior strengthened surface layer that includes the exterior surface, an interior strengthened surface layer that includes the interior surface and a central layer between the exterior strengthened surface layer and the interior strengthened surface layer that is under a tensile stress. A laser-induced intended line of separation is formed in the central layer at a predetermined depth between the exterior strengthened surface layer and the interior strengthened surface layer by irradiating the sidewall with a laser without separating the glass article.

An article includes an optical transforming layer and a guide region positioned inside and adjacent to at least a portion of a perimeter of the optical transforming layer. The guide region comprises an inlet end positioned adjacent to a first surface of the optical transforming layer and an outlet end positioned adjacent a second surface of the optical transforming layer. The guide region propagates light from the inlet end to the outlet end such that the light is directed from the first surface to the second surface. The guide region includes a phase-separated glass comprising a continuous network phase and a discontinuous phase. A relative difference in index of refraction between the continuous network phase and the discontinuous phase is greater than or equal to 0.3%. The discontinuous phase comprises elongated shaped regions aligned along a common axis and having an aspect ratio greater than or equal to 10:1.

Separation lines are formed in a glass plate having first and second main surfaces by irradiating with laser light. The separation lines are configured of a product line corresponding to an outline of a glass article to be separated; and a release line. The product line includes a first in-plane void array configured of in-plane voids arranged on the first main surface; and internal void arrays for product line, each having an in-plane void. The release line includes internal void arrays for release line. A maximum length of the internal void array for product line L.sub.1max is equal to a maximum length of the internal void array for release line L.sub.2max, and a minimum length of the internal void array for product line L.sub.1min is greater than a minimum length of the internal void array for release line L.sub.2min; or the length L.sub.1max is greater than the length L.sub.2max.

A method of production of glass reaction vessels includes irradiating a laser beam of a wavelength for which a first glass plate is transparent onto the surface of the first glass plate. The first hiss plate is etched. Etching of the first glass plate is terminated when the recesses extend, over only a portion of the thickness of the first glass plate and therefore the recesses have a bottom formed in the first glass plate as a single piece.