DocumentCode
1087783
Title
Control of optical fibre taper shape
Author
Kenny, R.P. ; Birks, T.A.
Author_Institution
Lightwave Technol. Res. Centre, Limerick Univ., Ireland
Volume
27
Issue
18
fYear
1991
Firstpage
1654
Lastpage
1656
Abstract
Two fibre tapering systems are tested for correspondence with the results of a simple predictive model for taper shape. A travelling gas burner system is found to imitate the model and should reproducibly realise any shape of taper, given an appropriate recipe from the model.
Keywords
modelling; optical fibres; optical workshop techniques; fibre elongation; fibre tapering systems; optical fibre; predictive model; taper formation; taper shape; travelling gas burner system;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Electronics Letters
Publisher
iet
ISSN
0013-5194
Type
jour
DOI
10.1049/el:19911034
Filename
132865
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