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An investigation of the relative effects of core ellipticity and stress-induced birefringence on fibre polarisation properties is described. It is found that a reduction in core stress levels is necessary to obtain low-birefringence fibres. A fibre having a retardation of only 2.6°/m is reported.
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Norman et al. (1979) studied this question.
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