FOBOS Optical Fiber

Vendor:	Polymicro Technologies
Purchase date:	23 November 1999
Purchase price:	$ 1768.00 for 340 meters

Product Descriptor FIP200220240 (STU)

Core Low OH Silica, 200 ± 8 um diameter

Cladding Doped silica, ~20 um thickness

Buffer Polyimide, ~20 um thickness

Numerical
Aperture 0.22 ± 0.02

Acceptance
Cone (Full) 25.4°

Operating
Temperature -65 ±C to +300 ±C

* The information in this table, as well as the images, were taken
from "The Book on the technologies of Polymicro".

Product Descriptor	FIP200220240 (STU)
Core	Low OH Silica, 200 ± 8 um diameter
Cladding	Doped silica, ~20 um thickness
Buffer	Polyimide, ~20 um thickness
Numerical Aperture	0.22 ± 0.02
Acceptance Cone (Full)	25.4°
Operating Temperature	-65 ±C to +300 ±C

The following plot shows transmission through a 100m length of STU fiber taken originially from:

Lu, G., Schötz,G.F., Vydra,J., & Fabricant, D. 1998, in SPIE proceedings V3355, Optical Astronomical Instrumentation, 884

Transmission through 100 meters

Additional information about this fiber can be found in:
Schötz,G.F., & Lu,G. 1998, in ASP Conf. Ser. 152, Fiber Optics in Astronomy III, ed. Arribas,S., Mediavilla,E., & Watson,F. (San Francisco: ASP),20