The invention provides a preparation method of high-purity and low-loss
chalcogenide glass, belonging to a preparation method of the
chalcogenide glass. The preparation method comprises the following steps of: removing
hydrocarbon impurity in the glass by taking ultra-dry
gallium chloride as a purifying agent, and distilling and purifying the glass in combination with the conventional deoxidant, aluminum,
magnesium or
zirconium metal; placing glass mixture into a
quartz ampoule to be sealed in by means of vacuum supply, founding the glass mixture in a vacuum
ampoule, dynamically distilling the glass, and remelting the mixture after distilling; and effectively removing the
hydrocarbon impurity in the glass by taking the ultra-dry
gallium chloride as the purifying agent, so that the
Mie scattering imperfection is hardly formed in the finally-obtained high-purity
chalcogenide glass, and the low-loss homogeneous glass can be obtained. According to the high-purity
chalcogenide glass synthesized by the preparation method provided by the invention, the minimum loss under the
infrared transmission waveband is less than 0.3dB / m, and the corresponding loss of the absorption peak of the residual
impurity is less than 8dB / m, so that the preparation method can be used in the field of an
infrared glass optical element and an
infrared optical fiber. The ultra-dry
gallium chloride purifying agent can be easily obtained, and is lower in price; the carbon,
hydrogen and
oxygen impurities can be removed from the
chalcogenide glass at high efficiency; the prepared
chalcogenide glass is better in uniformity and less in
light scattering.