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Pushkar Tandon0
Richard Michael Fiacco0
Dana Craig Bookbinder0
Michael Thomas Murtagh0
Ming-Jun Li0
Date of Patent
April 26, 2011
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122443590
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October 2, 2008
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Microstructured optical fiber and method of making. Glass soot is deposited and then consolidated under conditions which are effective to trap a portion of the consolidation gases in the glass to thereby produce a non-periodic array of voids which may then be used to form a void containing cladding region in an optical fiber. Preferred void producing consolidation gases include nitrogen, argon, CO2, oxygen, chlorine, CF4, CO, SO2 and mixtures thereof.
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