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In a bent optical fiber, lateral internal stress induces a birefringence, betab. At lambda = 0.633 microm in a silica fiber, betab = 7.7 X 10(7) r2 /R2 deg/m, where r is the fiber radius and R is the bending radius.
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Ulrich et al. (1980) studied this question.
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