Optical wave guides.

摘要

Glass fibre suitable for use as the core in fibre lasers and/or amplifiers has a core which consists of a continuous glass phase and a disperse phase of crystallites. The preferred crystallites are the oxides and phosphates of rare earth metals, eg Nd2O3 and NdP5O14. The small size concentration and distribution of the crystallites keeps the attenuation down to acceptable levels.