Validating the Rheological Changes during the Fibre Drawing of Microstructured Optical Fibres
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Lwin, Richard; Barton, Geoff; Large, Maryanne; Poladian, Leon; Tanner, Roger; Xue, Shicheng
- Source
- 2006 European Conference on Optical Communications Optical Communications, 2006. ECOC 2006. European Conference on. :1-2 Sep, 2006
- Subject
- Photonics and Electrooptics
Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Engineered Materials, Dielectrics and Plasmas
Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Signal Processing and Analysis
Optical fibers
Rheology
Microstructure
Chemical technology
Australia
Analytical models
Deformable models
Biomedical optical imaging
Optical sensors
Surface tension
- Language
- ISSN
- 1550-381X
Microstructure changes occur during the fibre fabrication of microstructured optical fibres. This paper reveals the theoretical analysis of the microstructure deformation behaviour and provides experimental evidence agreeing with previous simulation results of the control of this behaviour.