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Specialty Optical Fibers Handbook
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Specialty Optical Fibers Handbook

by Alexis Mendez, T. F. Morse
December 2006
Intermediate to advanced
840 pages
28h 20m
English
Academic Press
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15.3 STRENGTH AND RELIABILITY
The overall strength and reliability of silica-based optical fibers depend on
the fatigue effect. It means that flaws in the glass subjected to a tensile stress in
the presence of moisture grow subcritically before failure [25]. Because of this, the
strength of standard polymer-coated fiber (a typical value is 5.5 GPa at 50% RH
Figure 15.9 SEM photo of the surface of an Al coating with shallow ‘‘polycrystalline’’ grain
structure.
Figure 15.10 Structure of a tin coating surface after selective crystallographic etching of a high-
strength hermetically coated optical fiber (used, with permission, from reference [24]).
Mendez ...
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