Quality control of UV resistant fibers for 200-300 nm spectroscopic applications

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 6852, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Belz, Mathias ^a   Eckhardt, Hanns S ^b   Gonschior, Cornell P ^b   Nelson, Gary ^c   Klein, Karl F ^b  

^a WORLD PRECISION INSTRUMENTS INC   (United States)

^b University of Applied Science   (Germany)

^c Polymicro Technologies   (United States)

Author keywords

Defects; Recovery of defect; Silica based fibers; Solarization resistant fibers; UV fibers; UV applications

Indexed keywords

CHROMATOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS; COMPUTER NETWORKS; CUSTOMER SATISFACTION; DETECTORS; DISSOLUTION; FABRICATION; FIBER OPTICS; HEALTH; HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MARKETING; MEASUREMENTS; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; OPTICAL FIBER FABRICATION; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL LOSSES; OPTICAL MATERIALS; OPTICAL SENSORS; PRESSURE; PROBLEM SOLVING; QUALITY ASSURANCE; QUALITY CONTROL; QUALITY FUNCTION DEPLOYMENT; SENSORS; SILICA; SILICATE MINERALS; SILICON COMPOUNDS; SOFTWARE TESTING; TECHNOLOGY; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT;

(060.2410) FIBERS; ABSORBANCE MEASUREMENTS; DISSOLUTION TESTING; FABRICATION TECHNOLOGIES; FIBER DIAMETERS; FIBER LENGTHS; FIBER OPTIC PROBES; HIGH-PRESSURE LIQUID; LIGHT POWER; MEDICAL DIAGNOSTICS; OPTICAL (PET) (OPET); PROTEIN ANALYSIS; SILICA FIBERS; TRANSIENT RESPONSES; UV INDUCED; WARM-UP PERIOD;

FIBERS;

EID: 42149195269     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.782447     Document Type: Conference Paper

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