TY - CONF A1 - Lenke, Philipp A1 - Wendt, Mario A1 - Liehr, Sascha A1 - Krebber, Katerina T1 - The impact of temperature and humidity on the backscatter profile of PMMA POF T2 - POF 2010 - 19th International conference on plastic optical fibers (Proceedings) N2 - In this paper the influence of combined temperature and strain changes as well as changes of moisture content on polymer optical fibers made of polymethyl methacrylat (PMMA) is investigated. The increase of the scattering coefficient with increasing temperature for various strain levels is observed and quantified. The measurement results of influence of humidity on scattering intensity of PMMA-POF encourage to porpose these as a distributed humidity sensor. T2 - POF 2010 - 19th International conference on plastic optical fibers CY - Yokohama, Japan DA - 2010-10-19 KW - POF distributed sensing Rayleigh KW - Humiditiy KW - OTDR KW - Strain PY - 2010 SP - 1 EP - 7(?) AN - OPUS4-22685 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -