Design and development of a trenched optical fiber with ultra-low bending loss

Pramod R Watekar; Seongmin Ju; Won-Taek Han

doi:10.1364/oe.17.010350

Design and development of a trenched optical fiber with ultra-low bending loss

Opt Express. 2009 Jun 8;17(12):10350-63. doi: 10.1364/oe.17.010350.

Authors

Pramod R Watekar¹, Seongmin Ju, Won-Taek Han

Affiliation

¹ Department of Information and Communications, School of Photon Science and TechnologyGwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Buk-gu, Gwangju, South Korea.

PMID: 19506689
DOI: 10.1364/oe.17.010350

Abstract

We have designed and experimentally demonstrated a single mode optical fiber with a very low bending loss of about 0.014 dB/loop at 1550 nm for a bending radius of 5 mm.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Computer-Aided Design
Elastic Modulus
Equipment Design
Equipment Failure Analysis
Optical Fibers*
Reproducibility of Results
Sensitivity and Specificity
Stress, Mechanical