Loose abrasive blasting as an alternative to slurry polishing of optical fibre end faces

International Journal of Machine Tools and Manufacture

Volumn 43, Issue 14, 2003, Pages 1413-1418

  Gharbia, Yousef A ^a   Katupitiya, Jayantha ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Loose abrasive blasting; Optical fibre; Slurry polishing

Indexed keywords

ABRASIVES; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; KINETIC ENERGY; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; SLURRIES; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

LOOSE ABRASIVE BLASTING (LAB);

BLASTING;

EID: 0141458174     PISSN: 08906955     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0890-6955(03)00181-0     Document Type: Article

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