International Telemetering Conference Proceedings / October 13-15, 1981 / Bahia Hotel, San Diego, California / This paper describes results obtained at the Naval Ocean Systems Center, San Diego,
under Independent Exploratory Development funding. The objective was to develop a
robust, fully-demountable, high pressure penetrator design suitable for coupling light
signals transmitted by optical fiber elements in an undersea cable operated at high ambient
hydrostatic pressure into an electronics package or manned space. The feasibility of
constructing such penetrators utilizing Graded Refractive INdex (GRIN) rod lenses as
combination pressure barriers and imaging devices was demonstrated. Prototype
realizations exhibited excellent optical throughput performance and readily survived in
excess of 10,000 psi pressure differential as well as tolerating a wide temperature range.
The design lends itself to hermetic construction for applications requiring no vapor
diffusion over long mission durations. Such devices exhibit excellent potential for
satisfying SUBSAFE requirements for manned submersible applications.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:arizona.edu/oai:arizona.openrepository.com:10150/613807 |
| Date | 10 1900 |
| Creators | Cowen, Steven J. |
| Contributors | Naval Ocean Systems Center |
| Publisher | International Foundation for Telemetering |
| Source Sets | University of Arizona |
| Language | en_US |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text, Proceedings |
| Rights | Copyright © International Foundation for Telemetering |
| Relation | http://www.telemetry.org/ |
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