Mechanical strength of stripped optical fiber

Rochdi El Abdi (1) , Rodrigo Pinto (2, 1) , Patrice Lallinec , Marcel Poulain (3)

1 IPR - Institut de Physique de Rennes
2 Laboratoire Joliot Curie
3 ISCR - Institut des Sciences Chimiques de Rennes

A novel removal technique of silica optical fiber coating with chemical stripping gel was used. We observed that the fiber strength decreases from 5.48 to 4.96 GPa in the case of tensile test and from 0.06 to 0.05 GPa in the case of bending test when the coating was removed from the cladding surface. But the stress corrosion parameter varies little considering the measurement accuracies.

Keywords: stripped gel; tensile test; coating; Optical fiber; bending test; stress corrosion parameter

Domains: Engineering Sciences [physics]; Engineering Sciences [physics]; Materials; Physics [physics]

Rochdi El Abdi, Rodrigo Pinto, Patrice Lallinec, Marcel Poulain. Mechanical strength of stripped optical fiber. International Journal of Mechatronics and Applied Mechanics, 2019. ⟨hal-02384900⟩