Abstract
Terahertz time-domain spectroscopy has been used to extract the light-to-vibration coupling coefficient for sodosilicate glasses, from which it was possible to calculate the variance in the distribution of uncorrelated charges. It was found that increasing the sodium content of the glasses increased the standard deviation of the uncorrelated charge distribution in a linear fashion, and was almost an order of magnitude higher when compared to the charge distribution for pure silica reported previously, in agreement with previously published simulation data.