Controlled core removal from a d–shaped optical fiber

Applied Optics

Volumn 42, Issue 36, 2003, Pages 7121-7125

  Markos, Douglas J ^a   Ipson, Benjamin L ^a   Smith, Kevin H ^a   Schultz, Stephen M ^a   Selfridge, Richard H ^a   Monte, Thomas D ^b   Dyott, Richard B ^b   Miller, Gregory ^b  

^a Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

^b KVH Industries   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; CLADDING (COATING); DOPING (ADDITIVES); ELECTROOPTICAL MATERIALS; ETCHING; EVAPORATION; FIBER LASERS; HYDROFLUORIC ACID; IN SITU PROCESSING; INSERTION LOSSES; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; POWER TRANSMISSION; PROBLEM SOLVING; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

CLADDING MATERIALS; RED LASERS;

OPTICAL FIBERS;

EID: 0348198168     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.42.007121     Document Type: Article

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