Designing next generation coatings for telecommunication optical fibers

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4215, Issue , 2001, Pages 120-128

  Wojcik, A B ^a  

^a Hybrid Glass Technologies   (United States)

Author keywords

Adhesion; Hermetic coatings; Optical fiber; Organic inorganic hybrid; Polymeric coating; Sol gel; UV curing

Indexed keywords

CURING; INTERPENETRATING POLYMER NETWORKS; OPTICAL COATINGS; POLYMERIZATION; SOL-GELS; THERMAL EXPANSION;

POLYMERIC COATINGS;

OPTICAL FIBERS;

EID: 0034938045     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.424367     Document Type: Conference Paper

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