Fiber Fuse Effect: New Results on the Fiber Damage Structure

Conference: ECOC 2007 - 33rd European Conference and Exhibition of Optical Communication
09/16/2007 - 09/20/2007 at Berlin, Germany

Proceedings: ECOC 2007

Pages: 2Language: englishTyp: PDF

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Authors:
Bufetov, I. A.; Frolov, A. A.; Shubin, A. V.; Likhachev, M. E.; Lavrishchev, S. V.; Dianov, E. M. (Fiber Optics Research Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 38, Vavilov Str., Moscow, 119333, Russia)
Khopin, V. F. (Institute of Chemistry of High-Purity Substances of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 49 Tropinin Street, 603600, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia)

Abstract:
Interference of the fiber modes in the process of optical discharge propagation along the fiber enables one to influence the parameters of the process and to produce sequences of bubbles with a period of ~10-1000micrometer.