Fabrication of a stress-guiding optical fibre

The principle of stress guidance in optical fibres is described. An optimum-stress-guidance structure has been designed and fabricated using gas-phase etching. The fibre is the first to have truly single-polarisation operation for all V-values.

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Main Authors: Birch, R.D (Author), Varnham, M.P (Author), Payne, D.N (Author), Okamoto, K. (Author)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: 1983.
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