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Tellurite And Fluorotellurite Glasses For Active And Passive

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Contents; MDO iv<br />

7.4. Summary 326<br />

7.5. References 327<br />

8. Fibre drawing 330<br />

8.1. Experimental 330<br />

8.1.1. Thermal mechanical analysis (TMA) 330<br />

8.1.2. Preform manufacture 332<br />

8.1.3. Fibre drawing 335<br />

8.1.4. Optical loss measurements – cut-back method 338<br />

8.2. Results 339<br />

8.2.1. Viscosity (TMA) 339<br />

8.2.3. Crystals in drawn fibre 341<br />

8.2.4. Optical loss of fluorotellurite fibre 352<br />

8.3. Discussion 353<br />

8.3.1. Stress in a proposed core / clad pair 353<br />

8.3.2. Viscosity (TMA) 355<br />

8.3.3. ESEM of crystallised fibre 360<br />

8.3.4. Optical loss of fluorotellurite fibre 367<br />

8.4. Summary 371<br />

8.5. References 372<br />

9. Conclusions 375<br />

9.1. Thermal properties and glass stability (Chapter 4) 375<br />

9.2. Crystallisation studies (Chapter 5) 377<br />

9.3. Optical properties (Chapter 6) 380<br />

9.4. Surface properties (Chapter 6) 384<br />

9.5. Fibre drawing (Chapter 7) 388<br />

9.6. Overall conclusions and recommendations 390<br />

9.7. References 391<br />

10. Future work 393<br />

10.1. References 397

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