Fiber performance in hydrogen atmosphere at high temperature

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6193, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Semjonov, Sergey L ^a   Kosolapov, Alexey F ^a   Nikolin, Ivan V ^b   Ramos, Rogerio ^c   Vaynshteyn, Vladimir ^c   Hartog, Arthur ^c  

^a FIBER OPTICS RESEARCH CENTER   (Russian Federation)

^b SCHLUMBERGER MOSCOW RESEARCH   (Russian Federation)

^c SCHLUMBERGER   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbon coating; Hydrogen induced optical losses; Optical fibers

Indexed keywords

CARBON; COATING TECHNIQUES; HYDROGEN; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; SEMICONDUCTING GERMANIUM; SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING;

FIBER CORE; HYDROGEN PRESSURE; OPTICAL LOSSES; SHORT-WAVELENGTH LOSS EDGE (SWE);

FIBER OPTIC NETWORKS;

EID: 33746754737     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.662602     Document Type: Conference Paper

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