TY - CHAP A1 - Padilla-Michel, Yazmin A1 - Lucci, Massimiliano A1 - Casalboni, Mauro A1 - Steglich, Patrick A1 - Schrader, Sigurd ED - Ribeiro, Paulo A. T1 - Mechanical Characterisation of the Four Most Used Coating Materials for Optical Fibres T2 - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Photonics, Optics and Laser Technology : vol. 1 N2 - Optical multimode fibres have a wide variety of applications ranging from industrial to medical use. Therefore, even if they are just used as waveguides or sensors, it is important to characterise the whole fingerprint, including the optical and mechanical properties of such fibres. Since the stiffness/elasticity of a material could influence the optical output of a fibre due to micro-bendings, in this paper we report the calculated Young’s Modulus of acrylate, fluorinated acrylate, polyimide and silicone, which are the four most used coating materials for such optical components. The results demonstrate that Young’s Modulus does have an impact on the attenuation of propagating light along the optical fibre. However, the refractive index of the coating materials still has a significant impact on the performance of optical fibres. KW - fibre optics KW - coating material KW - Young’s Modulus KW - nanoindentation KW - attenuation Y1 - 2015 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:526-opus4-20063 SP - 96 EP - 102 PB - SciTePress CY - Setúbal ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Padilla-Michel, Yazmin A1 - Pulwer, Silvio A1 - Saffari, Pouneh A1 - Ksianzou, Viachaslau A1 - Schrader, Sigurd T1 - On the origin and removal of interference patterns in coated multimode fibres N2 - In this study, we present the experimental investigations on interference patterns, such as those already reported in VIMOS-IFU, and up to now no appropriate explanation has been presented. These interference patterns are produced in multimode fibres coated with acrylate or polyimide, which is the preferred coating material for the fibres used in IFUs. Our experiments show that, under specific conditions, cladding modes interact with the coating and produce interference. Our results show that the conditions at which the fibre is held during data acquisition has an impact in the output spectrum. Altering the positioning conditions of the fibre leads to the changes into the interference pattern, therefore, fibres should be carefully manipulated in order to minimise this potential problem and improve the performance of these instruments. Finally we present a simple way of predicting and modelling this interference produced from the visible to the near infrared spectra. This model can be included in the data reduction pipeline in order to remove the interference patterns. These results should be of interest for the optimisation of the data reduction pipelines of instruments using optical fibres. Considering these results will benefit innovations and developments of high performance fibre systems. KW - instrumentation KW - multimode fibre KW - bending loss KW - fringing KW - interference KW - coating material KW - data reduction Y1 - 2016 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:526-opus4-15295 SP - 1517 EP - 1527 PB - Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) ER -