Title :
All-glass hollow waveguide with structured cladding
Author :
Smith, Malcolm C.
Author_Institution :
SpecTran Corp., Sturbridge, MA, USA
fDate :
25 Feb.-1 March 1996
Abstract :
Summary form only given. Presents an all-glass hollow waveguide with a reflective cladding similar in concept to the quarter-wave stack used in bulk multilayer reflective optics. A theoretical study of this structure is presented. The hollow waveguide could be made as preforms and then drawn into fiber at a significantly lower cost than the current techniques.
Keywords :
drawing (mechanical); optical fibre cladding; optical fibre fabrication; optical fibre losses; optical fibre theory; optical glass; all-glass hollow fiber waveguide; fibre drawing; fibre preforms; quarter-wave stack; reflective cladding; structured cladding; Attenuation; Biomedical optical imaging; Dielectric substrates; Glass; Hollow waveguides; Optical attenuators; Optical fiber polarization; Optical waveguides; Silicon compounds; Waveguide lasers;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber Communications, 1996. OFC '96
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-422-X
DOI :
10.1109/OFC.1996.907639
