@inproceedings{75f2e572c30f4fec90ae02a9ff718126,
title = "Plastic optical fiber fuse and its impact on sensing applications",
abstract = "We review the unique properties of a so-called optical fiber fuse phenomenon in plastic optical fibers (POFs), including its slow propagation velocity (1-2 orders of magnitude slower than that in silica fibers) and threshold power density (1/180 of the value for silica fibers). We also show that an oscillatory continuous curve instead of periodic voids is formed after the passage of the fuse, and that the bright spot is not a plasma but an optical discharge, the temperature of which is ∼3600 K. We then discuss its impact on distributed Brillouin sensing based on POFs.",
keywords = "Brillouin scattering, Distributed measurement, Optical fiber fuse, Plastic optical fibers",
author = "Yosuke Mizuno and Heeyoung Lee and Neisei Hayashi and Kentaro Nakamura and Todoroki, {Shin Ichi}",
year = "2017",
doi = "10.1117/12.2272467",
language = "English",
series = "Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering",
publisher = "SPIE",
editor = "Libo Yuan and Youngjoo Chung and Wei Jin and Byoungho Lee and John Canning and Kentaro Nakamura",
booktitle = "25th International Conference on Optical Fiber Sensors",
note = "25th International Conference on Optical Fiber Sensors, OFS 2017 ; Conference date: 24-04-2017 Through 28-04-2017",
}