Noncontact optical fiber coating removal technique with hot air stream

Author

Park, Hyunsoo ; Lee, Seihyoung ; Paek, Un-Chul ; Chung, Youngjoo

Author_Institution

Hahnwool Opt. Inc., Gwangju, South Korea

Volume

23

Issue

2

fYear

2005

Firstpage

551

Lastpage

557

Abstract

We will discuss a novel noncontact removal technique of optical fiber coating in continuous and uninterrupted manner with hot air stream. We observed the mean breaking tensile strengths of the optical fibers coated with the UV-cured protective polymer and stripped using noncontact removal method were 5.6 and 5.1 GPa, respectively. A high-speed camera with 10 000 frames/s frame rates was used to observe the sequential steps of the explosion and vaporization of optical fiber coating materials.

Keywords

heat treatment; optical fibres; optical films; optical polymers; polymer films; protective coatings; tensile strength; vaporisation; 5.1 GPa; 5.6 GPa; UV-cured protective polymer; explosion; high-speed camera; hot air stream; mean breaking tensile strengths; noncontact removal technique; optical fiber coating; optical fiber coating materials; optical fibers; stripping; vaporization; Chemicals; Coatings; Glass; Optical fiber couplers; Optical fiber devices; Optical fiber sensors; Optical fibers; Optical materials; Polymer films; Protection; Coating; coating removal; fiber coating stripping; hot air stream; noncontact removal; optical fiber;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Lightwave Technology, Journal of

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0733-8724

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/JLT.2004.842305

Filename

1402532