Infra-red optical loss increase for silica fibre in cable filled with water

N. Uesugi, Yukio Murakami, C. Tanaka, Yasuyuki Ishida, Yutaka Mitsunaga, Y. Negishi, N. Uchida

Electronics Letters · 1983 · 43 citations · 2 references

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Abstract

Loss increase characteristics of optical fibre in cable filled with water are reported. Drastic loss increase around 1.24 μm is observed for both graded-index and single-mode fibres. The origin of the loss increase is found to be due to hydrogen gas diffused into the silica glass interstitially.

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