Abstract
We experimentally demonstrated that photodarkening is not uniformly distributed in the cross-section of bent LMA fibers. Photodarkening distribution depends on coiling diameter, and affects the use of fibers in applications and their photodarkening propensity measurement.
© 2008 Optical Society of America
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