Is Polar Bear Hair Fiber Optic?
Applied Optics, Vol. 37, Issue 15, pp. 3198-3200 (1998)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/AO.37.003198
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Abstract
New direct measurement of high optical attenuation rates in polar bear hairs—2–8 dB/mm in the visible—and reanalysis of the data of Tributsch et al. [Sol. Energy Mater. 21, 219 (1990)] seem to rule out the UV waveguiding proposed by Grojean et al. [Appl. Opt. 19, 339 (1980)]. The case against fiber-optic polar bear hairs is summarized, and four conditions are given that any variation of the model of Grojean et al. would have to satisfy.
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OCIS Codes
(060.0060) Fiber optics and optical communications : Fiber optics and optical communications
(060.2290) Fiber optics and optical communications : Fiber materials
(120.5820) Instrumentation, measurement, and metrology : Scattering measurements
(120.7000) Instrumentation, measurement, and metrology : Transmission
(160.2290) Materials : Fiber materials
(170.3660) Medical optics and biotechnology : Light propagation in tissues
(300.1030) Spectroscopy : Absorption
Citation
Daniel W. Koon, "Is Polar Bear Hair Fiber Optic?," Appl. Opt. 37, 3198-3200 (1998)
http://www.opticsinfobase.org/ao/abstract.cfm?URI=ao-37-15-3198
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