Microbending loss caused by stress in optical fiber composite low voltage cable
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Ashfaq, Ahsan; Chen, Yu; Yao, Kai; Sun, Guanshu; Yu, Jing
- Source
- 2018 12th International Conference on the Properties and Applications of Dielectric Materials (ICPADM) Properties and Applications of Dielectric Materials (ICPADM), 2018 12th International Conference on the. :483-486 May, 2018
- Subject
- Engineered Materials, Dielectrics and Plasmas
Power, Energy and Industry Applications
Attenuation
Optical fiber losses
Optical losses
Optical fiber cables
Connectors
Stress
Propagation losses
microbending
attenuation loss
displacement of the cladding layer
mathematical modelling of teeth connector
- Language
- ISSN
- 2160-9241
In Power systems the smart grids are taking place of the traditional grids. The main aspect of the smart grid is the two way communication between the power grid and consumer. This two way communication can be carried out by a single cable having conductors and optical fiber in a single OPLC cable. In this paper, we worked on the performance analysis of optical fiber when stranded together with phase conductors as the stress generated by the increase of temperature causes microbending in the optical fiber. In this paper, G.652.D and G.657.A2 are analyzed by using teeth connector experimental setup to experimentally scrutinize the attenuation loss occur due to the displacement of cladding layer with in the optical fiber due to the stress generated by the current flow in conductors. The step size is taken as 0.01 mm to create the micro bend in the optical fiber and analyze the number of micro bends the optical fiber can handle for the attenuation loss up to 0.15 dB/km. A critical displacement is determined for the optical fiber above which the loss has become unacceptable for the communication.