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  • Flat Type Cable with Silicone Clad Optical Fibers

    H. SUZUKI  T. NARUSE  M. KOJIMA  M. KOYAMA  

     
    PAPER

      Vol:
    E61-E No:3
      Page(s):
    175-177

    We have developed a flat type multi-fibers cable which is intended to use in data bus. As the broad-band characteristics is not necessarily required in such systems, we adopted the silicone cladding pure silica core fiber for the constitution unit of the flat type cable which has 10 optical fibers. The flat type cable is 5 mm wide and 0.5 mm thick and 1 km long. Core diameter and cladding diameter of silicone clad optical fiber is 150 µm and 360 µm respectively and refractive index difference between core and cladding is approximately 3.6%. In order to prevent silicone clad fiber from optical and mechanical damages due to handling and enviromental forces, they are jacketed with polyester elastomer of 0.5 mm in diameter. Mean value of the transmission losses of 10 fibers of the flat cable is 3.6 dB/km and the standard deviation of losses is 0.3 dB/km at 0.82 µm. This flat cable could be advantageous in solving the problems of inductive disturbance from electrical equipment and cable congestion in comparison with the usual cable with copper conductor. As the results of many optical and mechanical tests on the cable, we found it possible that the cable can be used pratically.