Specialty optical fibers handbook

This book is a comprehensive contributed volume that aims to describe and explain the design, fabrication, operating characteristics, and specific applications of the most popular and useful types of specialty optical fibers. These specialty fibers include any kind of optical fiber that has been arc...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Méndez, Alexis
Other Authors: Morse, T. F.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam Academic Press 2007
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Collection: O'Reilly - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Includes bibliographical references and index
  • CH 1 Introduction / CH 2 Applications and Market Opportunities / CH 3 Light-Guiding Fundamentals and Fiber Design / CH 4 Overview of Materials and Fabrication Technologies / CH 5 Optical Fiber Coatings / CH 6 Single Mode Fibers for Communications / CH 7 Specialty Single Mode Fibers / CH 8 Rare-Earth Doped Fibers / CH 9 Polarization Maintaining Fibers
  • CH 10 Photosensitive Fibers / CH 11 Hollow Core Fibers / CH 12 Silica Nanowires and Subwavelength-Diameter Fibers / CH 13 Chiral Fibers / CH 14 Mid-IR and Infrared Fibers / CH 15 Hermetic Carbon-Coated Fibers
  • CH 16 Metal-Coated Fibers / CH 17 Elliptical Core and D-Shape Fibers / CH 18 Multimode, Large Core and Plastic Clad Fibers / CH 19 Tapered Fibers and Specialty Fiber Micro-Components / CH 20 Liquid Core Fibers / CH 21 Polymer Optical Fibers / CH 22 Sapphire Fibers / CH 23 Optical Fibers for Industrial laser Applications / CH 24 Optical Fibers for Industrial Laser Applications / CH 25 Mechanical Strength and Reliability of Glass Fibers