Document Type
Patent
Publication Date
1-13-2015
Patent Number
8934748
Abstract
One embodiment of the invention includes a method for forming an optical fiber. The method comprises providing a preform having a core material and a glass cladding material surrounding the core material. The method also comprises drawing the preform at a temperature that is greater than a melting temperature of the core material to form a drawn fiber. The method further comprises cooling the drawn fiber to form the optical fiber having a crystalline fiber core and a cladding that surrounds the crystalline fiber core and extends axially along a length of the crystalline fiber core.
Application Number
12/989,326
Assignees
Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation (Falls Church, VA)
Filing Date
02/27/2009
Primary/U.S. Class
385/123; 385/142
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