Title :
Low loss hermetic optical fibre continuously metal casted over the buffer layer
Author :
Yoshizawa, Nobuyuki ; Negishi, Yukiyasu
Author_Institution :
NTT Transmission Syst. Labs., Ibaraki, Japan
Abstract :
A process has been developed to continuously cast molten metal on the surface of a buffered optical fibre. There is no attenuation increase due to metal jacketing and optical loss is stable at -30°C
Keywords :
optical fibres; optical losses; optical workshop techniques; -30 degC; buffer layer; buffered optical fibre; cast molten metal; hermetic optical fibre; metal jacketing; optical loss;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication, 1988. (ECOC 88). Fourteenth European Conference on (Conf. Publ. No.292)
Conference_Location :
Brighton
