Ultra-Low Loss Optical Fiber Characterization System Development

Abstract

The IR System 1 is an automated optical bench designed for the measurement of spectral attenuation differential model attenuation, and numerical aperture of zirconium fluoride infrared optical fiber. It is a specially adapted version of a commercially available FOA-2000, a silica fiber characterization system. The system measures spectral attenuation over the range from 600 nm to 4 microns. Launch conditions are overfilled for multimode fibers with core diameters up to 150 microns and with numerical apertures up to 0.24. The fiber vacuum chucks can accept fibers with outside diameters up to 200 microns. The attenuation is derived by performing a cut-back test.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 1990
Accession Number
ADA224843

Entities

People

  • K. D. Bennett
  • R. G. May
  • R. O. Claus

Organizations

  • Virginia Tech

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Sensors

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accuracy
  • Brushless Dc Motors
  • Computers
  • Control Panels
  • Data Sets
  • Detectors
  • Far Field
  • Graphics
  • Indium Antimonides
  • Measurement
  • Near Field
  • Numerical Aperture
  • Optical Detectors
  • Optical Fibers
  • Power Supplies
  • Stepper Motors
  • System Software

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Optical Fiber Sensing and Electromagnetic Propagation.
  • Software Engineering