Toward ultra-lucent optical fibers

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4594, Issue , 2001, Pages 288-299

  Ikushima, Akira J ^a,b   Saito, Kazuya ^a   Kakiuchida, Hiroshi ^a  

^a TOYOTA TECHNOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^b NONE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Density fluctuation; Doping; Fictive temperature; Glass transition temperature; Optical fiber; Optical loss; Rayleigh scattering; Silica glass; Structural relaxation

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; DOPING (ADDITIVES); FUSED SILICA; GLASS TRANSITION; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; LIGHT SCATTERING; RAYLEIGH SCATTERING; RELAXATION PROCESSES; VISCOUS FLOW;

STRUCTURAL RELAXATION;

OPTICAL FIBERS;

EID: 0035771094     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/12.446557     Document Type: Article

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