Extrusion method for making fibreoptic preforms of special glasses

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 3416, Issue , 1998, Pages 32-42

  Seddon, Angela B ^a   Furniss, David ^a   Motesharei, Arash ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chalcogenide; Extrusion; Glass; Optical fibres

Indexed keywords

EXTRUSION; GLASS; HEAVY METALS; OXIDES; SOLUBILITY; WATER;

GLASS RODS;

FIBER OPTICS;

EID: 0011060288     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.323398     Document Type: Conference Paper

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