Fabrication of a stress-guiding optical fibre

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Abstract

The principle of stress guidance in optical fibres is described. An optimum-stress-guidance structure has been designed and fabricated using gas-phase etching. The fibre is the first to have truly single-polarisation operation for all V-values.

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