Abstract
We report evidence of frozen-in viscoelastic strain and viscosity gradient arising from fiber drawing of pure silica endlessly single-mode holey optical fiber through phase retardation measurements. Tomographic reconstruction indicates non-uniform stress distribution during cooling.
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