High-Strength Tight-Jacketed Optical Fiber with Thermotropic Liquid Crystal Polymer

Yoshiaki TAKEUCHI  Fumio YAMAMOTO  Yoshito SHUTO 

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS (1976-1990)  Vol.E68  No.7  pp.413-414
Publication Date: 1985/07/20
Online ISSN: 
Print ISSN: 0000-0000
Type of Manuscript: LETTER
Category: Materials
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Summary: 
A high-strength, low-linear expansion coefficient tight-jacketed optical fiber is proposed using thermotropic liquid crystal polymer (LCP). The 0.9-mm-diameter LCP-jacketed optical fiber with breaking strength of 51 kg at strain of 3.4% at 25 can be used over the wide 60 to 200 temperature range.