Towards the low limits of 1383 nm loss in PCVD enabled single mode fibre production

Based on a pilot development series it is shown that careful prevention of OH/sup -/ contamination in all PCVD process steps enables industrial production of SM fibres with a 1383 nm loss reaching below 0.30 dB/km.

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