• DocumentCode
    274475
  • Title

    Soliton-like thermal shock-waves in optical fibres: origin of periodic damage tracks

  • Author

    Hand, D.P. ; Russell, P. St J

  • Author_Institution
    Opt. Fibre Group, Southampton Univ., UK
  • fYear
    1988
  • fDate
    11-15 Sep 1988
  • Firstpage
    111
  • Abstract
    The periodic damage track left after the passage of a soliton-like thermal shock-wave along an optical fibre is shown to arise through mode focusing in the thermal lens created by the shock-wave
  • Keywords
    focusing; optical fibres; shock waves; solitons; thermo-optical effects; mode focusing; optical fibres; periodic damage tracks; soliton-like thermal shock-wave; thermal lens;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    iet
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Communication, 1988. (ECOC 88). Fourteenth European Conference on (Conf. Publ. No.292)
  • Conference_Location
    Brighton
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    93535