Silica-based UV-fibers for DUV applications: Current status

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 8775, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Klein, K F ^a,e   Gonschior, C P ^a,e   Beer, D ^a   Eckhardt, H S ^b   Belz, M ^c   Shannon, J ^d   Khalilov, V ^d   Klein, M ^e   Jakob, C ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Germany)

^b tec5 AG   (Germany)

^c World Precision Instruments Deutschland GmbH   (Germany)

^d MOLEX INC   (United States)

^e TransMIT GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

355 nm laser; Broadband light source; Cryogenic temperatures; Fiber optic delivery system; Low solarization deuterium lamp; Multimode fibers; Standardization; Step index fibers; UV applications; UV fibers

Indexed keywords

355 NM LASER; BROADBAND LIGHT-SOURCE; CRYOGENIC TEMPERATURES; DELIVERY SYSTEMS; DEUTERIUM LAMP; STEP-INDEX FIBERS; UV-APPLICATIONS; UV-FIBERS;

DEUTERIUM; FIBERS; LIGHT SOURCES; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; NEODYMIUM LASERS; SILICA; STANDARDIZATION;

MULTIMODE FIBERS;

EID: 84880874909     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: 1996756X     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.2020993     Document Type: Conference Paper

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