Spectral losses of unclad fibers made from high-grade vitreous silica
- 1 July 1973
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Applied Physics Letters
- Vol. 23 (1) , 45-46
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1654732
Abstract
Spectral loss measurements performed between 0.5 and 1.15 μm with up to 32‐m‐long unclad fibers drawn from Suprasil W1, Spectrosil WF, and Corning 7943 synthetic vitreous silica demonstrated that bulk glasses with total losses well below 10 dB/km at certain wavelengths of interest for future optical communication systems are already commercially available. Lowest losses of 4 dB/km at 0.90 μm and 2.5 dB/km at 1.06 μm were obtained with one of the samples evaluated.Keywords
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