Fiber bend losses produced by soft and swellable materials for hydrocarbon detection

Georgina Beltran-Perez; Evgueni Anatolevich Kuzin; Alfredo Marquez-Lucero; Rosa Lopez; Vasilii V. Spirin

doi:10.1117/12.527075

19 November 2003 Fiber bend losses produced by soft and swellable materials for hydrocarbon detection

Georgina Beltran-Perez, Evgueni Anatolevich Kuzin, Alfredo Marquez-Lucero, Rosa Lopez, Vasilii V. Spirin

Proceedings Volume 4829, 19th Congress of the International Commission for Optics: Optics for the Quality of Life; (2003) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.527075
Event: 19th Congress of the International Commission for Optics: Optics for the Quality of Life, 2002, Florence, Italy

Abstract

We present results of measurements of fiber bend loss caused by soft and swellable materials with perturbation periods of 1 mm to 20 mm. We used swellable materials that have different moduli of Young. We show that the swell of soft materials causes the pure bend loss that increases when the period rises. We show that the higher modulus of Young the higher the loss caused by swellable materials. These results may be used to choose suitable materials and construction for assembling a fiber optics sensor based in the bend loss.

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Georgina Beltran-Perez, Evgueni Anatolevich Kuzin, Alfredo Marquez-Lucero, Rosa Lopez, and Vasilii V. Spirin "Fiber bend losses produced by soft and swellable materials for hydrocarbon detection", Proc. SPIE 4829, 19th Congress of the International Commission for Optics: Optics for the Quality of Life, (19 November 2003); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.527075

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