Bending strength and fractographic analysis of zinc tellurite glass modified optical fibres

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4639, Issue , 2002, Pages 30-39

  Kraus, Joerg ^a   Bruschi, Carlo ^a   Chierici, Enrico ^a   Bürger, Herbert ^b   Gugov, Ivailo ^b  

^a Agilent Technologies/TTC   (Italy)

^b FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bending strength; Fracture toughness; Microhardness; Mirror constant; Tellurite fibres

Indexed keywords

BARIUM COMPOUNDS; BENDING STRENGTH; CLADDING (COATING); ELASTIC MODULI; FRACTALS; FRACTOGRAPHY; FRACTURE TOUGHNESS; GLASS FIBERS; INDENTATION; MICROHARDNESS; MIRRORS; MULTIMODE FIBERS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ZINC COMPOUNDS;

GLASS MODIFIED OPTICAL FIBRES;

SINGLE MODE FIBERS;

EID: 0036381277     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/12.481341     Document Type: Article

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