Fusion splicing soft-glass suspended core fibers to solid silica fibers for optical fiber sensing

35th Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology, ACOFT 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Englich, Florian V ^a   Schartner, Erik P ^a   Murphy, Dominic F ^a   Ebendorff Heidepriem, Heike ^a   Monro, Tanya M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

fusion splicing; microstructured optical fiber; optical fiber sensor; soft glass

Indexed keywords

FIBER OPTIC SENSORS; GLASS; MICROSTRUCTURE; SILICA; SINGLE MODE FIBERS;

CONVENTIONAL FIBERS; FUSION SPLICING; INDUCED DAMAGE; MICRO-STRUCTURED OPTICAL FIBERS; MICROSTRUCTURED FIBERS; OPTICAL FIBER SENSING; SOFT GLASS; SOLID SILICA;

FIBERS;

EID: 79960622376     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/acoft.2010.5929904     Document Type: Conference Paper

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