Silicone-clad fused-silica-core fibre

3 April 1975

journal article
Published by Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) in Electronics Letters

Vol. 11 (7) , 153-154
https://doi.org/10.1049/el:19750117

Abstract

We have developed a very-low-loss optical fibre employing silicone resin as the cladding and fused silica as the core. The minimum transmission loss was 3.2 dB/km at 0.84 μm and the half-pulse width spread was 19 ns/km at 0.80 μm.

Keywords

CORE
FUSED SILICA
OPTICAL FIBRE
TRANSMISSION LOSS
CLADDING
SILICONE RESIN