Fiber drawn from the tip of a silica-based preform

A fiber is being drawn from the tip of a silica-based preform that has been heated by the mirror-focused beam of a high-power carbon-dioxide laser., Credit Line: Bell Laboratories / Alcatel-Lucent USA Inc., courtesy AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives, Physics Today Collection
Abstract/Description: A fiber is being drawn from the tip of a silica-based preform that has been heated by the mirror-focused beam of a high-power carbon-dioxide laser.
Subject(s): Fiber optics
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Credit Line: Bell Laboratories / Alcatel-Lucent USA Inc., courtesy AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives, Physics Today Collection
Catalog ID: Fiber Optics F5