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DeSolite Supercoatings™
Today’s FTTx applications are driven by consumer demand for video streaming, new applications and devices that require greater bandwidth than ever before. Optical fiber supporting these applications must be able to meet the industry’s most advanced requirements.
As performance standards continue to increase, DSM Desotech remains the industry’s innovation leader, providing patented fiber coating systems that deliver the highest levels of mechanical and environmental performance.
DSM’s newest generation of fiber coatings, DeSolite Supercoatings™, has been engineered to significantly improve microbending sensitivity at the fastest processing speeds, ensuring the best economy of high speed production and superior attenuation performance. In standard basket-weave testing, DeSolite Supercoatings™ display 90% less sensitivity to microbend attenuation—a performance advantage critical for today’s new FTTx designs, especially at the longer wavelengths of 1625nm.
In addition to improved microbending sensitivity, DeSolite Supercoatings™ demonstrate high reliability in temperature extremes, ensuring a robust solution especially in low temperature environments. Other enhanced performance properties include reduced volatility, faster cure speed and advanced mechanical properties.
DSM’s State of-the-Art Testing Capability
DSM utilizes state-of-the art techniques that have proven critical for characterizing.
Coatings and their on-fiber performance. These techniques are key to ensuring fiber robustness and protecting network investments for the future.
During the product development process, careful analysis is conducted on how new DSM materials behave in their liquid and cured states. This characterization allows DSM to predict actual performance benefits that will be realized on customer production lines.
DSM has developed and assembled a set of tools that takes fiber characterization to a new level, from liquid to on-fiber properties:
- Coating liquid characterization
- Coating film characterization
- Curing process characterization – real time DMA, real time FTIR and PhotoDSC
- Draw tower simulator (DTS)
- Coated optical fiber characterization – in-situ modulus, in-situ DMA, it-situ Tg
DSM’s Comprehensive Portfolio of Solutions for Fiber Optic Cable:
For more information, contact Desotech Global Product Manager Kelly Hawkinson at: kelly.hawkinson@dsm.com