Plastic optical fiber fuse and its impact on sensing applications

Yosuke Mizuno; Heeyoung Lee; Neisei Hayashi; Kentaro Nakamura; Shin-ichi Todoroki

doi:10.1117/12.2272467

23 April 2017 Plastic optical fiber fuse and its impact on sensing applications

Yosuke Mizuno, Heeyoung Lee, Neisei Hayashi, Kentaro Nakamura, Shin-ichi Todoroki

Proceedings Volume 10323, 25th International Conference on Optical Fiber Sensors; 103231D (2017) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2272467
Event: 25th International Conference on Optical Fiber Sensors, 2017, Jeju, Korea, Republic of

Abstract

We review the unique properties of a so-called optical fiber fuse phenomenon in plastic optical fibers (POFs), including its slow propagation velocity (1–2 orders of magnitude slower than that in silica fibers) and threshold power density (1/180 of the value for silica fibers). We also show that an oscillatory continuous curve instead of periodic voids is formed after the passage of the fuse, and that the bright spot is not a plasma but an optical discharge, the temperature of which is ~3600 K. We then discuss its impact on distributed Brillouin sensing based on POFs.

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Yosuke Mizuno, Heeyoung Lee, Neisei Hayashi, Kentaro Nakamura, and Shin-ichi Todoroki "Plastic optical fiber fuse and its impact on sensing applications", Proc. SPIE 10323, 25th International Conference on Optical Fiber Sensors, 103231D (23 April 2017); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2272467

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