Title : 
History and progress of the fiber fuse
         
        
        
            Author_Institution : 
Dept. of Eng. Phys., Ecole Polytech. de Montreal, Montréal, QC, Canada
         
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
In the 25th year almost to the day in July, of my discovery of the low power damage in optical fiber also known as the fiber “fuse”, this paper reviews the advances made in our understanding and control this phenomenon.
         
        
            Keywords : 
heat treatment; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre losses; fiber fuse; low power optical damage; optical fiber; Fiber lasers; Fuses; Optical fiber networks; Optical fibers; Plasmas;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Opto-Electronics and Communications Conference (OECC), 2012 17th
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
Busan
         
        
        
            Print_ISBN : 
978-1-4673-0976-9
         
        
            Electronic_ISBN : 
2166-8884
         
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/OECC.2012.6276640