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Optical Components
Specialty Fiber Products
1550 nm High Numerical Aperture Single-Mode Optical Fiber
Part Number: FS-SC-7324 Stock Number: 98-0400-1356-1
June 2001
Product Applications Interferometric Sensors
- Fiber Optic
- Hydrophones
Communciation Systems
- Laser Packaging and Pigtailing
EDFA Construction
- 980/1550 nm WDM Fabrication
- EDFA Gain Fiber Pigtailing
Device Fabrication
Features and Benefits High numerical aperture reduces sensitivity to induced macrobend loss when
deployed on small diameter coils.
High index of refraction, mode stripping coating reduces microbend sensitivity.
Easy to remove single layer acrylate coating simplifies fiber preparation steps in
pigtailing and fabrication.
Typical Fiber Characteristics Value Units
Operating Wavelength: 1550 nm
Second Mode Cutoff Wavelength: <1500 nm
Mode Field Diameter at Operating Wavelengtha:7.8 +/- 0.5 um
Maximum Attenuation at Operating Wavelength: 2.0 dB/km
Typical Attenuation at Operating Wavelength: 1.0 dB/km
Nominal Numerical Aperture: 0.16
Minimum Optical Bend Diameter: 12 mm
Cladding Diameter: 125 +/- 2um
Maximum Core-to-Clad Offset: 1.0 um
Coating Style: Single Coat
(acrylate)
Outer Primary Buffer Coating Diameter: 250 +/-15 um
Minimum Mechanical Bend Diameter: 25 mm
Proof Test Level d:100 kpsi
Operating Temperature Range: -55 to 85 C
a The Mode Field Diameter is measured at the operating wavelength per EIA/TIA-455-167A and reported as the Petermann II result.
d Fiber at higher proof levels can be provided
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please contact 3M Optical Components Customer Service Representative at the number below:
1-866-474-9029
OR, view our web site at:
www.3m.com/fibers
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Remedy; Limited
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This product will be free from defects in material and manufacture for a period of one (1) year from
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