Accession Number:

ADD010326

Title:

Method of Protecting Optical Fibre against Stress Corrosion.

Descriptive Note:

Patent Application,

Corporate Author:

DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY WASHINGTON DC

Personal Author(s):

• Klinger,Liliana

Report Date:

1983-06-29

Pagination or Media Count:

7.0

Abstract:

Optical fibres are protected against stress corrosion by first coating the optical fibre with a primary coating of ultra violet curable cis, trans fluoropolyolacrylate in which the modulus is reduced by eliminating about 25 percent of the pendant ester groups, curing the primary coating, applying a secondary coating of a high modulus heat curable fluoroepoxy or a high modulus UV curable cis trans fluoropolyolacrylate over the primary coating and curing the secondary coating. Author

Descriptors:

• *Patent applications
• *Fibers
• *Optical materials
• *Coatings
• Curing
• Stress relieving
• Protection
• Acrylates
• Fluoropolymers
• Modulus of elasticity
• Heat treatment
• Inventions

Subject Categories:

• Textiles
• Optics

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE