Feasibility of Making Coherent Fiber-Optic Arrays from Fused Silica

Abstract

Coherent fiber-optic bundles offer opportunities for application of state-of-the-art electro-optic imaging techniques to the sighting and fire- control problem. However, conventional fiber-optics are limited in this application by their high attenuation coefficients (up to 2000 dB/km). Fused silica fiber with its low attenuation (1-50 dB/km), offers substantial improvement.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 01, 1986
Accession Number
ADA170873

Entities

People

  • Dean J. Geraci
  • J. E. Rourke
  • Mark L. Delong

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics
  • Sensors
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Chemical Vapor Deposition
  • Coefficients
  • Commerce
  • Corporations
  • Detectors
  • Electro-Optics
  • Elements
  • Fiber Optics
  • Fibers
  • High Temperature
  • Imaging Techniques
  • Materials
  • Optical Fibers
  • Optical Materials
  • Optics
  • Security
  • United States

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Optical Fiber Sensing and Electromagnetic Propagation.
  • Systems Analysis and Design