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Characterization of Specialty Fibers

Handbook of Optical Fibers

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Specialty fibers play an important role both in scientific research and industrial applications. The past decades have also witnessed a significant benefit from specialty fibers. Behind these successes is a constant understanding of the performance of these fibers. In this chapter, characteristics of specialty fibers and their measurement technologies are discussed in detail, including dispersion characterization, polarization characterization, and other special characterization techniques.

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Chai, Q., Chu, Y., Zhang, J. (2018). Characterization of Specialty Fibers. In: Peng, GD. (eds) Handbook of Optical Fibers. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-1477-2_59-1

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