Reliable Expanded Beam Connectors for Single Mode Optical Fiber Sensor Applications in Harsh Environment

Xavier Insou (1) , Lionel Quetel (2) , Sébastien Claudot (3) , Monique Thual (1)

1 FOTON - Institut des Fonctions Optiques pour les Technologies de l'informatiON
2 IDIL Fibres Optiques
3 Souriau-Sunbank-esterline ECT

We propose an expanded beam micro lens in standard single mode connectors, compliant with harsh environment connections. Low Insertion loss, high return loss and relaxed alignment tolerances compared with Single Mode Fiber (SMF) are demonstrated in C and O band. We give one example of harsh environment optical fiber sensor applications.

Domaines: Optique [physics.optics]

Xavier Insou, Lionel Quetel, Sébastien Claudot, Monique Thual. Reliable Expanded Beam Connectors for Single Mode Optical Fiber Sensor Applications in Harsh Environment. 2nd International Symposium on Reliability of Optoelectronics for Systems (ISROS 2019), Nov 2019, Toulouse, France. ⟨hal-02415813⟩