Optical waveguide fibers have been produced by a chemical-vapor-deposition technique with optical attenuations as low as 1.1 dB/km at 1.02 µm. The application of this technique to the fabrication of graded index fibers with losses below 2 dB/km is also reported.
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Tasker et al. (1974) studied this question.