Abstract
It is important to measure quantitively the initial compressive strain and fiber axis deformation in plastic-jacketed optical fibers induced by the jacketing process,1 since these are serious factors which are related to the thermal characteristics for optical cable design. Usually thermal characteristics of fiber strain in plastic-jacketed optical fibers are measured by using the phase shift of the modulation signal or delay time of the launched optical pulse. Our measurements used the birefringence change in nylon-jacketed high-birefringence optical fibers.
© 1985 Optical Society of America
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