• DocumentCode
    2842319
  • Title

    Tough ultra bend-insensitive fiber having compressive residual stress at surface of pure-silica cladding

  • Author

    Nakanishi, Tetsuya ; Hirano, Masaaki ; Inai, Maki ; Sasaki, Takashi ; Hattori, Tomoyuki

  • Author_Institution
    Sumitomo Electr. Ind., Ltd., Yokohama, Japan
  • fYear
    2010
  • fDate
    19-23 Sept. 2010
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    3
  • Abstract
    UBIF having compressive residual stress at cladding surface without additional layer is newly developed, which realizes both 13 times longer lifetime at 1.3mm-radius bending and 100 times lower 25-years failure probability at 5mm-radius bending compared with those of conventional UBIF.
  • Keywords
    fatigue testing; internal stresses; optical fibre cladding; optical fibre fabrication; optical fibre testing; silicon compounds; SiO2; compressive residual stress; fibre fabrication; radius 1.3 mm; radius 5 mm; silica cladding surface; static fatigue testing; ultrabend-insensitive fiber; Atmospheric measurements; Glass; Optical fibers; Reliability; Residual stresses; Stress measurement;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Communication (ECOC), 2010 36th European Conference and Exhibition on
  • Conference_Location
    Torino
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-8536-9
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-1-4244-8534-5
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ECOC.2010.5621104
  • Filename
    5621104