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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