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Foreword ------- p.1

Kaoru Honjo

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Feature Articles I: Recent Research & Development on Silica Glass

1) What Silica Glasses Tell Us? ------- p.6

Nobu Kuzuu

2) Structure and Photoluminescence Properties of Silica Glass Prepared from Nanometer-Sized Silica Particles ------- p.13

Takashi Uchino

3) Fabrication of High-Purity Transparent Silica Glass by Powder Sintering Method ------- p.19

Shigeru Fujino

4) A New Type of Silica Glass Optical Fiber for Deep-UV Light ------- p.25

Masanori Oto

5) Bimodal Porous Silica Gel as Thermal Insulator with Humidity Control Ability for Building ------- p.31

Ryoji Takahashi

6) Synthesis of Water-Soluble Silicon Oxide Material ------- p.37

Yoshiro Kaneko

Nobuo Iyi

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New Glass Research Topics

Synchrotron-Radiation Induced Refractive-Index Changes in Glass Films for Optical Communications ------- p.43

Kazuyuki Moriwaki

Mikitaka Itoh

Kazuhiro Kanda

Shinji Matsui

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Nanotechnology Glass Research Topics

Fabrication of Ultra-Small Demultiplexer Using One-Dimensional Photonic Crystal ------- p.48

Kazuaki Oya

Tatsuhiro Nakazawa

Shigeo Kittaka

Keiji Tsunetomo

Kenji Kintaka

Junji Nishii

Kazuyuki Hirao

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Lectures for Newcomers

Various Actions of Rare Earth Ions in Glasses ------- p.54

Setsuhisa Tanabe

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Visit¡¡to¡¡Glass Research Institute

"My Staying at LARMAUR, Universite de Rennes 1" ------- p.62

Satoshi Yoshida

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Introduction of New Glass Products

"Transparent Ceramics, LUMICERATM" ------- p.67

Tatsuya Suzuki

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Topics of Meetings on Glass

1) Report on the Photon Craft International Cooperative Research Project Symposium II ------- p.70

Shuhei Tanaka

2) Report on Membrane Symposium 2004 ------- p.72

Sachio Okada

3) Report on the 11th International Display Workshops¡ÊIDW'04) ------- p.74

Akira Mitsui

4) Report on the 45th Symposium on Glass and Photonics Materials ------- p.78

Tatsuya Suetsugu

5) Report on 7th Japanese-American Frontiers of Science ------- p.81

Hiroyo Segawa

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Introduction of New Book

------- p.85

Tetsuo Yazawa

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Column

A New Year's card illustrated with my own photographs - Sakura ------- p.87

Yuji Aoki

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