Mechanical Characterisation of the Four Most Used Coating Materials for Optical Fibres
- 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.
| URN: | urn:nbn:de:kobv:526-opus4-20063 |
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| Publisher DOI: | https://doi.org/10.5220/0005336700960102 |
| Author: | Yazmin Padilla-Michel, Massimiliano LucciORCiD, Mauro CasalboniORCiD, Patrick SteglichORCiD, Sigurd SchraderORCiD |
| Parent Title (English): | Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Photonics, Optics and Laser Technology : vol. 1 |
| Document Type: | Conference Proceeding |
| Language: | English |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| First Page: | 96 |
| Last Page: | 102 |
| Publisher: | SciTePress |
| Place of publication: | Setúbal |
| Faculties an central facilities: | Fachbereich Ingenieur- und Naturwissenschaften |
| Editor: | Paulo A. Ribeiro |
| Publishing Institution: | Technische Hochschule Wildau |
| Tag: | Young’s Modulus; attenuation; coating material; fibre optics; nanoindentation |
| Source: | Padilla Michel, Y., Lucci, M., Casalboni, M., Steglich, P. and Schrader, S. (2015). Mechanical Characterisation of the Four Most Used Coating Materials for Optical Fibres. In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Photonics, Optics and Laser Technology - Volume 1: PHOTOPTICS; ISBN 978-989-758-092-5; ISSN 2184-4364, SciTePress, pages 96-102. DOI: 10.5220/0005336700960102 |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 6 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften / 62 Ingenieurwissenschaften / 620 Ingenieurwissenschaften und zugeordnete Tätigkeiten |
| 6 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften / 62 Ingenieurwissenschaften / 621 Angewandte Physik | |
| Licence (German): | Creative Commons - CC BY-NC-ND - Namensnennung - Nicht kommerziell - Keine Bearbeitungen 4.0 International |
| Release Date: | 2025/02/27 |



