Temperature dependence of return loss for optical fiber connectors with refractive index-matching material

Author

Kihara, Mitsuru ; Nagasawa, Shinji ; Tanifuji, Tadatoshi

Author_Institution

NTT Access Network Syst. Labs., Ibaraki, Japan

Volume

7

Issue

7

fYear

1995

fDate

7/1/1995 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

795

Lastpage

797

Abstract

This letter describes the temperature dependence of return loss for optical fiber connectors with refractive index-matching material. We have performed return loss calculations and experiments for mated flat endface plugs whose fiber endfaces had a high index layer. We used index-matching material with a refractive index of 1.467 at 20/spl deg/C and a thermal coefficient of -2.9/spl times/10/sup -4///spl deg/C. We confirmed that almost all the connectors with a return loss of /spl ges/40 dB at 20/spl deg/C had return loss values of /spl ges/35 dB between -40/spl deg/C and 80/spl deg/C.<>

Keywords

optical fibre couplers; optical fibre losses; optical fibres; refractive index; -40 to 80 C; 20 C; fiber endfaces; high index layer; index-matching material; mated flat endface plugs; optical fiber connectors; refractive index; refractive index-matching material; return loss; return loss calculations; temperature dependence; thermal coefficient; Connectors; Contacts; Optical fiber losses; Optical fibers; Optical materials; Optical reflection; Optical refraction; Plugs; Refractive index; Temperature dependence;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/68.393209

Filename

393209