Fabrication of a graded-index polymer optical fiber preform without a cavity by inclusion of an additional monomer under a centrifugal force field

Applied Optics

Volumn 41, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 1858-1863

  Im, Sang Hyuk ^a   Suh, Duck Jong ^a   Park, O Ok ^a   Cho, Hansol ^b   Choi, Jin Sung ^b   Park, Jae Keun ^b   Hwang, Jin Taek ^b  

^a Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

^b Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology (SAIT)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DENSITY (OPTICAL); FREE RADICAL POLYMERIZATION; GRADIENT INDEX OPTICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONOMERS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SHRINKAGE;

CENTRIFUGAL FORCE FIELDS;

OPTICAL FIBERS;

EID: 0036543157     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.41.001858     Document Type: Article

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