A Wide Aperture 2048 Element Astronomical-Chemical-Nuclear Particle Detection Array
Abstract
This paper reviews a worldwide effort to make fiber by sol-gel. Two routes: the all-gel and the hybrid are described. In the latter, a vapor-deposited core member is overclad with gel-silica subsequently to be drawn to fibers. Recently, bodies weighing more than 1 Kg have been cast, dried and consolidated. Taken together these reports suggest that sol-gel processing is approaching the threshold of commercialization.
- Publication:
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Components for fiber optic applications III and coherent lightwave communications
- Pub Date:
- February 1989
- DOI:
- 10.1117/12.959746
- Bibcode:
- 1989SPIE..988..131T