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cladding Dictionary Terms

plastic optical fiber
Plastic optical fiber (POF) is a type of optical fiber made from transparent plastic, typically polymethylmethacrylate...
fiber optic preform
A fiber optic preform is a cylindrical glass rod or tube used as the starting material for manufacturing optical fibers. It...
indium
Metal used in components of the crystalline semiconductor alloys indium gallium arsenide (InGaAs), indium gallium arsenide...
ultraviolet fiber optics
Ultraviolet (UV) fiber optics refers to optical fibers that are designed and optimized for the transmission of ultraviolet...
stress-applying part
In polarization-preserving optical fibers, the element used to induce birefringence. The SAP is highly doped to provide a...
fiber optic cable
A package for an optical fiber or fibers that may include cladding, buffering, strength members and an outer jacket.
hard-clad silica fiber
A type of optical fiber in which a silica core is surrounded by a hard polymer or similar material much stronger than the...
step index profile
A profile of an optical component, usually a fiber, in which the core is of uniform refractive index and the cladding or...
normalized frequency
Also referred to as the V number in fiber optics; the normalized frequency is a dimensionless quantity, denoted by the...
plastic jackets
The direct cladding used for fused silica cores to create large numerical aperture fibers and used as overcoats to...
local injection detection system
A device used to evaluate the quality of fiber optic splices made in the field by injecting light into the cladding of the...
deeply depressed cladding fiber
An optical fiber, usually a single-mode fiber, that has an outer cladding with nearly the same index of refraction as the...
concentricity error
The distance between the center of the two concentric circles of an optical fiber that designate the diameter of the...
tolerance field
In fiber optics, the annular region between two concentric circles; used to specify fiber cladding and core sizes.
refracted ray
A light ray that has had its direction altered because of its traversing an air-to-glass interface at some angle. In an...
reference surface
The surface of an optical fiber that is used as a reference when joining optical fibers. Although the outermost cladding is...
heat treating
The process of subjecting glass to temperature cycling to produce physico-chemical reactions that alter its properties....
cladding ray
A ray that is reflected into the core of an optical fiber from the outer surface of the cladding.
stripper
A tool used to remove the outer cladding of an optical fiber without damaging the fiber core.
plastic-clad silica fiber
An optical waveguide having a silica core and a plastic cladding.
refractive index contrast
A measure of the relative difference in refractive index between two optical materials. Most commonly used in fiber optics...
plastic fiber
Fiber in which both core and cladding are made of plastic.
cladding mode
A mode that is confined by virtue of a lower-index medium surrounding the cladding. Cladding modes, in the terminology of...
index-guided laser
A laser diode with an output beam contained in the active layer by means of a built-in refractive index profile formed in...
graded index
Descriptive of an optical fiber having a core refractive index that decreases almost parabolically and radially outward...
optical fiber
Optical fiber is a thin, flexible, transparent strand or filament made of glass or plastic used for transmitting light...
automatic profiling
In fiber optics, the use of a detector to study the range of refractive indices achieved at various wavelengths. This...
double-clad fiber
Double-clad fiber (DCF) is a specialized optical fiber that features two concentric cladding layers surrounding a core. The...
all-silica fiber
Also known as all-glass fiber. A fiber with both a silica core and a silica cladding, regardless of the presence of a...
homogeneous cladding
That part of the cladding wherein the refractive index is constant within a specified tolerance, as a function of radius.
antiguide
A waveguide that has a core with a lower refractive index than the refractive index of the cladding. This structure can...
cladding glass
In fiber optics, the glass that is found around the glass core of the fiber, and that has a lower refractive index than the...
pulse reduction factor
Factor that relates the pulse spread occurring in a graded-index fiber to that of an equivalent step-index fiber having an...
cladding
The low-refractive-index material that surrounds the core of an optical fiber to contain core light while protecting against...
primary coating
In a waveguide, the material in intimate contact with the cladding surface, applied to preserve the integrity of that...
tight buffer
Protective material surrounding the cladding of an optical fiber that allows the fiber no play within it.
cladding mode stripper
A mechanism or device, especially a coating with a refractive index equal to or slightly greater than that of an optical...
microbend-modulated sensor
A type of fiber optic sensor that detects changes in pressure, vibration, sound level or acceleration by monitoring the...

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