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fiber fuse

A phenomenon in which high optical power, encountering an imperfection in an optical fiber, destroys the fiber's core and causes damage to back-propagate down the fiber. It is caused by classic Rayleigh instability resulting from capillary effects in the molten silica that surrounds the vaporized fiber core.
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